Employee Profiles

QED-UK has approximately 25 staff members and associates as well as numerous volunteers up and down the country. Together, they help the charity realise its vision and fulfil its aims and objectives.

Here are profiles of its chief executives.

Dr Mohammed Ali OBE

Mohammed Ali was born in Pakistan and came to live in the UK with his father in 1969. He studied in Bradford schools and Huddersfield and Bradford universities. He worked for ten years in senior jobs with Glaxo Pharmaceuticals,, Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council, Sheffield City Council and Bradford Community Relations Council.

In 1990 he founded QED-UK, winner of several national awards, is ethnic minority focused community economic development agency. He has direct experience of working with most minority ethnic communities in the UK and participated in seminars in Europe, Canada and Asia on ethnic minority issues. He won Professor Handy's Alchemist Award for QED, was given an honorary doctorate from Bradford University, received an OBE in 2001 and was a finalist in the Personality of the Year, Lifetime Achievement and Principal of the Year categories of the UK Charity Awards 2003 and 2004.

He is a board member of Prescriptions Pricing Authority, West Yorkshire Learning and Skills Council, National Consumer Council Advisory Group, Bradford University Council, Diversity Officer for Yorkshire Regions IOD; member of BBC Northern Region Forum and the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations.

Adeeba Malik MBE

Adeeba was born in Bradford and trained as a teacher. She taught religious education in a Bradford school before joining QED in 1992 where she manages a number of social, educational and economical projects. Adeeba also has extensive experience of working with major public and private companies on equality and diversity projects.

She chairs the DTIs national Ethnic Minority Business Forum; she is also a member of the Women and Work Commission and Home Office's Advisory Board on Naturalisation & Integration. Previously, she was a board member of the regional development agency, Yorkshire Forward, British Waterways, National Clinical Assessment Authority and several other public appointments.

Adeeba has won many awards for her contributions and in June 2004 was awarded an MBE for her services to ethnic minorities and businesses.