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Lord Hameed

The Right Honourable
The Lord Hameed
CBE DL
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Khalid Hameed, Baron Hameed, photographed in 2013
High Sheriff of Greater London
In office
2006–2006
Preceded by Andrew Everard Martin Smith
Succeeded by Jan Stephen Pethick
Personal details
Alma mater Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College, Kanpur, University of Lucknow

Khalid Hameed, Baron Hameed, CBE DL (born 1 July 1941) is the Chairman of Alpha Hospital Group, and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the London International Hospital. Prior to this, he 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. He received a CBE in the 2004 New Year's Honours. 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 a Governor of International Students House; President of The Little Foundation; Chairman of The Woolf Institute of Abrahamic Faiths, and is a Vice-President of the Friends of the British Library.

He is involved with inter-religious matters and lectures on this subject.

He was appointed by Her Majesty the Queen as the first Asian High Sheriff of Greater London for the year 2006-2007. This office is 1,000 years old and is the second oldest office in the country after the monarchy.


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