Chair: Lutfur Ali

Lutfur joined the CIPD in October 2021 and is also a Non-Executive Director for the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) and has a career spanning over three decades in a range of leadership roles where he has championed equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in the public, private and third sector – he has enabled organisations to become healthier, employers of first choice and best in class. This includes: the Tribal Group PLC, the Department of Health, London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority, Adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Adviser to the National College of School Leadership, Associate to the National College of Policing and Tower Hamlets Council. Lutfur has also served on several landmark Judicial Inquiries and Government Task Forces including: the Zahid Mubarak Inquiry, the Prime Ministers Prevent Task Force and the International Ministerial Working Group on Illegal Working