Faiza Shaheen is a British academic in the field of economic inequality. In 2018, she was selected as prospective parliamentary candidate for Labour in Chingford and Woodford Green, coming second in the 2019 general election to incumbent, Iain Duncan Smith. She was again selected by her local party in 2022 to stand in the constituency but was not endorsed by Labour in the July 2024 election. Shaheen stood as an independent in the constituency but was not elected. In 2023, her first book, Know Your Place, was published.