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 studied at Huddersfield Polytechnic and Bradford University School of Management. He worked for ten years with Glaxo, Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council, Sheffield City Council and Bradford Community Relations Council.

In 1990 he founded QED-UK a leading minority ethnic community economic development agency: he has experience of working with diverse communities throughout the UK and participated in seminars in Europe, Canada and Asia on ethnic minority issues. He won Professor Handy's Alchemist Award, an honorary doctorate from Bradford University, 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.

He is currently a member of Bradford and Airedale PCT; ACEVO North Advisory Board; Personalisation Commission; Home Office Earned Citizenship Strategic Advisory Group; European Integration Forum; Appointments Commissions Equality and Diversity Forum; ESRC Peer Review College and Third Sector Consortium. He has held many other appointments in the past 20 years including West Yorkshire Learning and Skills Council, National Consumer Council Advisory Group, Bradford University Council, Yorkshire Regions IOD and the BBC Northern Region Forum.

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.