Khalid Hameed, Baron Hameed

Khalid Hameed, Baron Hameed, CBE DL was the Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer of the Cromwell Hospital in London.He hails from Lucknow, 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 of the Little Foundation. Dr 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 the United Kingdom.

He is involved with interreligious matters and lectures on this subject.

In February 2007, it was announced by the House of Lords Appointments Commission that he will be made a life peer and will sit as a Crossbencher. The peerage was gazetted on 27 March 2007 as Baron Hameed, of Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden.

He was also named British Asian of the year 2007.

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