Councillor Fiyaz Mughal OBE, Treasurer

Fiyaz Mughal is a Founder Trustee and Treasurer of the Jerusalem Interest-free Microfinance Fund Limited. He has responsibility for developing relationships with Palestinian micro-finance organisations. He shares with Donald Franklin responsibility for liaising with institutional foundations in the UK and the USA.

Fiyaz Mughal is the Chief Executive Officer for the Enfield Citizens Advice Bureaux and Director of Faith Matters, a not for profit organization that works on reducing extremism and developing platforms for discourse and interaction between Muslim and Jewish communities right across the UK. Fiyaz has been employed for over 12 years in the community and voluntary sector in positions that have included social policy lobbying, project and general management and leading organizations as the Chief Operating Officer. In these capacities, Fiyaz has been involved in a large variety of projects, ranging from the provision of training to women to European transnational faith related programmes and advice and information projects.

Fiyaz is a Councillor in Haringey and was previously a Councillor in Oxford (2002-2004).  He is Deputy President of the Liberal Democratic Party in the UK, he has also campaigned heavily on Black and Minority Ethnic (group) inclusion within political parties and discourses. He was appointed to be on the Working Group for Communities that was linked to the Extremism Task Force developed in 2005 after the 7/7 bombings. Fiyaz Mughal was awarded the OBE in June 2009 for services to the voluntary sector.