Associate Director

An Experienced Leader, Businessman, Entrepreneur, Social Innovator, Public Servant and Founder with a history of success in the education, healthcare, community, business, not-for-profit, and interfaith sectors. Skilled in Social Enterprise, Community Engagement, Policy Analysis, Strategic Planning, Performance Monitoring, Organizational Development, and Training. Strong entrepreneurship professional with degrees from the Universities of Oxford (B.Th Hons.) and London (M.A.) in Theology and Abrahamic Religions, respectively.

Monawar has a passion for good leadership and helping leaders develop to meet the needs of themselves, their family, the organisations they work in, and society as a whole.

In his own words:

“My entrepreneurial spirit began when at school I decided, with the help of financial support from my father, to purchase cutlery and associated items from a warehouse in Manchester to sell to my mum’s friends. At the age of 19, I took a lease on a retail business for £10K by the end of the year this had a turnover of half a million pounds. When I sold this in 2009, it had an annual turnover of £2.5M! Whilst operating this business I established an international commodities trading company; and also went back to study as a mature student reading Retail Management and Law (Oxford Polytechnic/Brookes University), Theology (University of Oxford), and Master’s in Abrahamic Religions (University of London). I am an alumnus of the Windsor Leadership Trust.”