UK Council President Amin Mohamed Mawji recognised in the Queen’s New Year Honours list

Many British Asians are amongst an influential list of people who have been honoured in the New Year’s Queen’s Honours list.

Honours’ lists are published twice a year at New Year and in mid-June on the date of the Queen’s official birthday. Anybody can be nominated for an honour, but only exceptional people receive one. Those honored work in a wide range of fields including sports, education, medical research, heritage, and local arts and sports projects.

This year some 828 candidates have been selected at MBE and OBE level, 587 at MBE and 241 at OBE while there are 420 successful women candidates on the list, representing 43 percent of the total. Women candidates include 1 GBE, 7 Dames, 27 CBEs and 3 CBs. 12 per cent of the successful candidates come from ethnic minority communities.

Amin Mohamed Mawji. For public and voluntary service. (London, SM2)

Amin Mawji graduated in Economics from The LSE before qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1982. Over the past 25 years, he has advised on a number of large corporate transactions, including major transactions in the defence sector, and international mergers and acquisitions.

Amin has also led projects to provide audit and assurance services to a number of major public companies, principally in the manufacturing and engineering sectors. In this role, he has been appointed by major corporate clients and the UK Government, including the Ministry of Defence and the Audit Commission, to advise on governance and business performance management systems. He is the author of ‘Programmed for Control,’ a book covering best practice ideas on controlling risks on long-term contracts, programmes and projects.

During the early period of privatisations in the UK, Amin played a central role in developing a new conceptual framework for infrastructure asset accounting. This led to the major change by the UK water industry to the renewals basis of accounting, now adopted as an industry standard. He has also advised more generally on privatisation proposals in Eastern Europe. Amin has a strong commitment to public service and to building a strong civic society. His recent responsibilities and voluntary service include:

Member of the Audit and Finance Committee of the Department for International Development (DfID).
Member of the Audit and Risk Committee of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food (MAFF).
Trustee of Sight Savers International, a world leader in the prevention and treatment of blindness. SSI is the prime mover behind VISION 2020, the world programme to eliminate avoidable blindness by 2020.
Trustee and Treasurer of Local Investment Fund (LIF), the UK’s premier community development financial institution. LIF was set up by the UK Government and the private sector to fill the funding gap often experienced by social enterprise.

Amin has held various leadership roles within the Ismaili Muslim community. He is a past Chairman of His Highness Prince Aga Khan’s Grants and Review Board, responsible for oversight over a number of the social governance institutions for the Ismaili Muslim community (1990 – 1996). He has also served on the Ismaili Muslim Councils for the EU and UK (1996 – 2005).

These roles have included outreach work with international agencies, foreign embassies and government. He was involved in launching the British Asian Leadership for Corporate Citizenship programme in 2001, and was a keynote speaker at the London Mayor’s 2004 Indian Conference on What London has to offer Indian Businesses. He continues to be a strong advocate for
encouraging all our citizens, of all faiths, to work together for a modern integrated society built on sound values and ethics.

Amin is married with two children and lives in Surrey. His interests include Indian classical music, art and philosophy.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_New_Year_Honours#Officers_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire_.28OBE.29
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