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Race Equality Advisory Forum

Appendix A: Biographical details of members

Jackie Baillie, Minister for Social Justice in the Scottish Executive chaired the Forum.

Saqib Abbasi is project manager of the Community Service Volunteers Ethnic Minority Health Action Project in Glasgow.

Rowena Arshad is the Director of the Centre for Education for Racial Equality in Scotland (CERES) based within the University of Edinburgh, and a lecturer on equity and rights. She has recently taken up the post of Equal Opportunities Commissioner with special knowledge of Scotland. She is also a member of the STUC General Council, a board member with the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council and a member of the Board of Management of Telford College, Edinburgh.

Ephraim Borowski is Honorary Secretary of the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities, Vice-President of the Glasgow Jewish Representative Council, and Chair of the Regional Council of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. He was formerly a Senior Lecturer and Head of Department in the Department of Philosophy, University of Glasgow, and is President of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow.

Mick Conboy is Deputy Head of the Commission for Racial Equality, Scotland.

Matthew Farrow is Head of Policy at CBI Scotland.

Tesfu Gessesse is the Project Co-ordinator of the Black Community Development Project in Edinburgh. He is currently Chair of the Lothians and Edinburgh Racial Equality Council, (ELREC) and a member of the Board of Directors of the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO).

Jatin Haria is the Co-ordinator/Partnership Manager of the Glasgow Anti Racist Alliance (Social Inclusion Partnership). He has been a member of the STUC Black Workers' Committee for a number of years and is its current vice-chair.

Subhash Joshi was a Senior Partner in Pannell, Kerr, Foster. He was also chair of Positive Action in Housing, President of Glasgow Chamber of Commerce and a board member of Ethnic Enterprise Centres in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Dharmendra Kanani is Director of the Commission for Racial Equality, Scotland. Mr Kanani is also a member of the Lawrence Steering Group.

Aziza Khand's background is working with the Muslim community in general but with a special interest in issues affecting Muslim women.

Philomena J F de Lima is a Lecturer (Sociology) and Researcher at Inverness College and serves as a Council member on the Scottish Further Education Funding Council. She has also authored one of the first studies on the experiences of rural minority households in rural Scotland.

Dr Martin MacEwen is former Vice Principal of Edinburgh College of Art and Head of the Scottish Ethnic Minority Research Unit. Dr MacEwen is also a former member of the Lawrence Steering Group. Dr MacEwen has moved to South Africa to take up a new post as Visiting Professor of Law at Stellenbosch University.

Shamime Mansoori is an Equal Opportunities Officer in Falkirk Council.

Mukami McCrum is Chief Executive of Central Scotland Racial Equality Council and is also a member of the Home Secretary's Race Relations Forum.

Philip Muinde has extensive knowledge of race relations issues and many years' experience of promoting good race relations between people of different cultural backgrounds. He is a member and Vice Chair of the Grampian Racial Equality Council and a member of the Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce. He is also a member of the Institute of Directors as well as the International Corporate Governance Network.

Dorothy Neoh is the Project Manager of NCH San Jai Chinese Project in Glasgow.

Najimee Parveen is Director of Positive Action Training in Housing. Prior to this she was Policy and Campaigns Officer for the Commission for Racial Equality in Scotland.

Vijay Patel is a Black Issues Consultant in the British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering. He is the former Chair of the Black and Ethnic Minority Infrastructure in Scotland (BEMIS).

Robina Qureshi is the Director of Positive Action in Housing, which works with minority ethnic communities and housing providers to secure safe and affordable housing. Ms Qureshi is also a member of the Lawrence Steering Group.

Selma Rahman is Director of Fife Racial Equality Council.

Sofi Taylor is employed by Greater Glasgow National Health Service Primary Care Trust. She is a community nurse for ethnicity and culture in the Community Learning Disability Team.

Louise Donnelly, Rhona Carr and Alastair Crerar from the Scottish Executive provided the secretariat to the Forum.

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