Mosaic's work is overseen by our national Advisory Board, comprising the following inspirational leaders.
Her Royal Highness Princess Badiya bint El Hassan
HRH Princess Badiya bint El Hassan of Jordan has a BA Hons in History from Oxford University and an LL.M. in public international law from The London School of Economics. She was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1998. Her current work is focused on projects to further interfaith and cross cultural understanding, as well as initiatives to promote human rights in general and, more specifically, the rights of asylum seekers and refugees.
Princess Badiya also works with her father, Prince El Hassan, and the organisations he is associated with. She is regularly invited to give lectures, often to students, on Islam, human rights and related issues. She is a Princes Trust Ambassador and, since its inception, she has also been an active supporter of Mosaic. Princess Badiya chaired the first and second Mosaic Talent Awards in 2008 and 2010. In the summer of 2009, Princess Badiya took up the position of Chairman of Mosaic UK by personal appointment of HRH The Prince of Wales.
Board Members
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Aaqil Ahmed Ismail Amla Mahmoud Atalla Monawar Hussain DL Kameel Khan Khawar Mann Shabir Randeree Nabila Sadiq Peter Sanders Tariq Shah Tidjane Thiam Yasmin Waljee
Aaqil Ahmed is Head of Religion and Ethics and Commissioning Editor for TV and is part of the BBC Knowledge Commissioning team. Aaqil joined the BBC from Channel 4 where for more than six years he was Commissioning Editor for Religion and Head of Multicultural Programming. Commissions include many award-winning and high-profile projects such as Saving Africa's Witch Children, The Qur'an, Inside The Mind Of A Suicide Bomber, Christianity: A History and the religion strand Revelations.
From 2000 to 2003 Aaqil was employed by the BBC's Religion and Ethics department as Deputy Editor of Documentaries, where he worked on a number of projects from Trouble Up North, Headhunting The Homeless, Richard Gere On Buddhism to the acclaimed current affairs and religion strand Everyman. Previously Aaqil worked for the BBC as a Director on Here And Now. He also produced and directed The Crime Squad (fronted by Sue Lawley) as well as numerous one-off documentaries for BBC One such as Britain On The Fiddle and Behind The Bike Sheds.
In addition he produced news event specials such as the funeral of Diana Princess of Wales and the Turkish earthquake. Aaqil began his career at the BBC in 1992 working primarily for BBC Birmingham on programmes such as Panorama, Network East and Bollywood Or Bust.
In 2005 he was awarded The Ibn Batuta Excellence in Media award by The Muslim News and in 2007 Aaqil was presented with an achievement award in arts and media by the Asian Power Hundred. Aaqil is a trustee of the Runnymede Trust, chairman of the Mosaic Media Network as well as being a member of the Mosaic Advisory Board.
Ismail Amla is a partner at Capco. He is the North America regional business leader and a member of Capco's Global Executive Management Team. He is responsible for Human Capital worldwide, and for Capco’s offshore operations in India. Ismail has long-term experience in the financial services industry and in managing large teams across the globe. Ismail is often invited as a visiting fellow to lecture at Manchester Business School. Prior to joining Capco in 2010, Ismail was Managing Director at Accenture responsible for the outsourcing business in Austria, Switzerland and Germany. He was also the delivery lead across all service lines for Accenture’s largest global client in financial services and, for the last five years, a member of the Accenture UK leadership team, leading a range of Human Capital initiatives. Before joining Accenture, Ismail was a Vice-President and UK Board member of CSC, where he led the financial services business in the UK and Ireland. His roles at CSC included the CEO role for Vybe, the CSC UK division focused on e-business and innovation.
Mahmoud Atalla is a Managing Director of HSBC Principal Investments and Head of HSBC Private Equity (UK) - the UK mid-market private equity investment business of the HSBC Group. Mahmoud joined the HSBC Group in 1998. He has worked with HSBC's investment banking and private equity investment businesses in London, Dubai and New York. He rejoined HSBC from Montagu Private Equity, where he focused on UK buy-outs, and was a founding member of HSBC Private Equity Middle East.
Mahmoud has an MSc from the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) in Politics of the World Economy and a BSc from the University of Bristol in Economics and Politics. He is a member of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies' Young Muslim Leadership Programme and HRH Mohammed Bin Rashid's Young Arab Leaders.
Imam Monawir is an Oxford Businessman. He is the Imam at Eton College. He is also the founder of The Oxford Foundation that seeks to support vulnerable, disaffected and low achieving young people through innovative educational programmes. He devised, pioneered and successfully piloted a unique educational programme confronting violent extremist ideology, aspects of which have been published and the programme has also been utilised to train RE teachers in the UK. He also sits on numerous advisory boards.
Monawar is passionate about interfaith dialogue between the world's faiths, serving on the advisory and consultative board of The Three Faiths' Forum and in late 2010 addressing the World's Ambassadors at St James's Palace to seek ways of expanding this work internationally.
Monawar read Theology at the University of Oxford and trained as an Imam under the late Sheikh Dr. Zaki Badawi KBE. He was appointed a Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire in 2009. He has also appeared on national and International TV and Radio channels.
Dr. Kameel Khan is a lawyer who now sits as a Judge in the Tax Court. He was born in Trinidad, West Indies of Asian parentage and attended both the University of London and McGill University, Canada where he obtained his Phd. Dr Khan has been a lecturer in Law at University College London and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School.
Before working in Tax Law, Dr Khan worked on human rights cases for people on death row in the Caribbean. His first job was as a labourer on a farm in Trinidad. Dr Khan is a good cricketer, likes jazz music and has two children, one a law student and the other studying Urban Planning at University College London. His wife is also a lawyer.
Khawar Mann is a partner with Apax Partners, the international private equity firm, where he specialises in healthcare investments. His recent investments include the hospital groups General Healthcare Group Ltd in the UK, Capio AB and Unilabs in Europe and Apollo Hospitals in India. He has a degree in Medical Sciences and Law from Cambridge University and also an LLM Master of Law. He has an MBA from The Wharton School, where he was a Fulbright and Thouron scholar.
Khawar began his career as a lawyer with Linklaters in London specialising in Corporate Finance and Intellectual Property. He then moved to Weston Medical Group PLC as the Commercial Director before joining Apax Partners in 2003. Khawar is a Trustee of The Enterprise Education Trust and the Apax Foundation and is also a member of the Government Taskforce for Talent and Enterprise.
Shabir Randeree is Chairman of DCD London & Mutual, with over 25 years of experience in Real Estate, Venture Capital, Finance and Community Banking. He is also Chairman of European Islamic Investment Bank plc and Deputy Chairman of Albaraka Bank South Africa. In Asia, Shabir is currently a Non Exec Director of BankIslami, listed on the KSE. Shabir was also a founder Director of the first standalone Islamic Retail Bank in the UK, Islamic Bank of Britain plc where he stepped down in Feb 2008 after serving for five years on the Board.
On the not-for-profit side, Shabir has acted on the executive committee of BMRC, a UK research-based charity, he was a Founder and former Trustee of the British Edutrust Foundation which has developed numerous Academies in the UK and served as a member of the government's National Ethnic Minority Business Task Force, chairing their Access to Finance sub-committee. Currently, Shabir sits on the UK Trade & Investment Department's Asia Task Force committee, co-chaired by the Secretary of State for Business, Dr Vince Cable.
Shabir also acts as a Mentor, both for young business entrepreneurs and recently for graduates at the London Business School (LBS). He was recently appointed onto the LBS Judging Panel for MBA Presentations and is also a Committee member of the London Chapter of The Young Presidents Organisation (YPO), currently serving as their Forum Chair.
Shabir was listed in the Asian Power 100 for the UK in 2007 and the UK Muslim Power List (99) for 2010. Shabir holds a BA(HONS) in Accounting and Finance from Kingston University Business School and an MBA. He also has several years of executive education at London Business School (LBS) and at Harvard University.
Nabila joined Joslin Rowe Temporaries as Director in 1997 to build one of the leading investment banking recruitment agencies in London's financial centre. Nabila was made a Main Board Director of the Blomfield group in 1999 and was made Managing Director of Joslin Rowe Temporaries is 2002. Nabila's achievements were further recognized when she was awarded the title of Asian business women of the year in 2003. Nabila is currently taking a career break from the world of recruitment and pursuing other business and charitable interests.
One of London's leading photographers of rock musicians in the 1960s, Peter's work has since focused on followers of Islam. His first book quickly sold out, and the second work The Art of Integration shows how Muslims have been an integral and important part of Britain for more than a century.
Property specialist and international active asset manager Tariq Shah is an executive director of the Vigo Group, managing a portfolio of assets ranging from landmark capital city investments to starter units for small businesses.
Consistently driving a wide variety of projects from concept to completion, Tariq focuses on establishing strong partnerships to optimise and develop assets and ensure lasting positive impacts. The third generation to enter this family business, traditional values of honesty, integrity and trust are at the centre of Tariq's philosophy. These core principles, supported by a focus on excellence and a dynamic response to change have ensured the group has succeeded and developed across sectors and through market cycles.
Tariq was educated at St Peter's School, York and holds a BSc in Economics and Politics from Birmingham University. He remains involved in politics and is also a Trustee of the AHS Foundation.
Tidjane Thiam has been an executive director of Prudential since 25 March 2008. He was the Chief Financial Officer until 30 September 2009, and became Group Chief Executive with effect from 1 October 2009. Tidjane was previously Chief Executive Officer, Europe at Aviva, where he also held successively the positions of Group Strategy and Development Director and Managing Director, Aviva International. Tidjane spent the first part of his professional career with McKinsey & Company in Paris, London and New York, serving insurance companies and banks. He then spent a number of years in Africa where he was Chief Executive and then Chairman of the National Bureau for Technical Studies and Development in Côte d?Ivoire and a cabinet member as Secretary of Planning and Development. Tidjane returned to France to become a partner with McKinsey & Company as one of the leaders of their Financial Institutions practice before joining Aviva in 2002. Tidjane was a non-executive director of Arkema in France until November 2009, when he resigned from the Arkema board. He is a member of the Council of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) in London, a sponsor of Opportunity International, and a member of the Africa Progress Panel chaired by Kofi Annan.
Yasmin Waljee is a solicitor and full time Pro Bono Manager at international law firm Lovells. Yasmin's appointment in 1997 was the first of its kind by a City law firm. Since then she has worked with partners in the firm to develop an international pro bono programme providing free 15,000 hours of legal advice to over 200 charities and individuals a year unable to afford legal advice.
She is an immigration lawyer but now regularly works on human rights cases including compensation for the July 7 victims, Article 2 issues and compensation for British victims of crime and terrorism abroad.
In May 2005 Yasmin was short listed for the Asian Women of Achievement Awards and in April 2000 Yasmin was awarded The Times Woman Solicitor of the Year. Yasmin was awarded an OBE in The Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2010 for her services to the Muslim community.
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