The Lord Hameed | |
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 Official parliamentary portrait, 2019 | |
| High Sheriff of Greater London | |
| In office 2006–2006 | |
| Preceded by | Andrew Everard Martin Smith |
| Succeeded by | Jan Stephen Pethick |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 26 April 2007 Life Peerage | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1941-07-01)1 July 1941 (age 84) |
| Political party | Crossbench |
| Alma mater | Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College, Kanpur,University of Lucknow[1] |
Khalid Hameed, Baron Hameed,CBE,DL (born 1 July 1941[2]) is the chairman ofAlpha Hospital Group, and chairman and chief executive officer of theLondon International Hospital. Prior to this, he was the executive director and chief executive officer of theCromwell Hospital inLondon. He hails fromLucknow,India.
He chairs the Commonwealth Youth Exchange Council. He is a board member of the British Muslim Research Centre, and also the Ethnic Minorities Foundation. He is an executive member of the Maimonides Foundation and a trustee ofThe Little Foundation. He received aCBE in the 2004New Year's Honours.[3] Hameed supports various charities and was awarded the Sternberg Award for 2005 for his contribution to further Christian - Muslim - Jewish Relations. He has received several national and international honours from various countries, including theUnited Kingdom. He is a governor of International Students House; president ofThe Little Foundation; chairman ofThe Woolf Institute of Abrahamic Faiths, and is a vice-president of theFriends of the British Library.[4]
He is involved with inter-religious matters and lectures on this subject.
He was appointed by Her Majesty the Queen as the first Asianhigh sheriff of Greater London for the year 2006–2007. The office ofHigh sheriff is 1,000 years old and is the second oldest office in the country after the monarchy.
In February 2007, it was announced by theHouse of Lords Appointments Commission that he will be made alife peer and will sit as aCrossbencher.[5] The peerage was gazetted on 27 March 2007 asBaron Hameed, ofHampstead in theLondon Borough of Camden.[6]He was also named British Asian of the year 2007. In between the 2019 and 2024 elections, Hameed claimed £27,628 in allowances for showing up to parliament 98 times, despite never speaking, never voting, never sitting on a committee, never holding a government post, and never sending a written question.[7]
He was awardedPadma Shri in 1992 and thePadma Bhushan, "third in hierarchy of civilian awards", by theGovernment of India in 2009.[8] He was the chief guest at Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas 2010 held inNew Delhi.
He is married to Dr Ghazala Afzal, who was appointedHigh Sheriff of Greater London for 2015–16.[9]
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The QUEEN has been pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm dated 27 March 2007 to confer the dignity of a Barony of the United Kingdom for life upon Khalid Hameed Esquire, CBE, by the name, style and title of Baron Hameed, of Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden.
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| Preceded by | High Sheriff of Greater London 2006 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by | Gentlemen Baron Hameed | Followed by |
