Nadra Ahmed OBE DL

Nadra is the Chairman of the National Care Association (NCA).

Nadra has been involved in the field of social care for over 30 years. Until 2005 she was the Registered Manager of two private care homes for older people having developed and run services since 1981.

Nadra's background is in training and education which has been the passion that drives her towards a quality service underpinned and provided by a skilled workforce. She continues to champion the role of education in the delivery of a quality service through her company Kent Care Training Associates which is a not-for-profit based in Kent.

She has been Chairman of NCA since 2001 and was the Vice Chairman of Skills for Care for 11years having been appointed at it's inception. She is also a trustee of SCIE and Parkinson's UK and was a Council Member of the LSC (SE).

Nadra holds a number of positions within voluntary organisations both nationally and locally delivering services to vulnerable people in the community, including Patron of Rockdale Housing and President of Hi Kent. She is a regular contributor to journals and national and international conferences and is frequently called upon by the major media networks to represent the views of social care providers.

In 2006 she was awarded the OBE for her services to Social Care. She is the Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Kent and a Kent Ambassador.

Nadra is driven by the desire to ensure the delivery of quality services to the most vulnerable members of our society.

Ali Azeem

Ali has been involved in other areas of politics before joining the CMF Executive. After working for George Osborne on economic policy development, Ali ran in Chadwell during the May 2010 elections, where he cut the needed swing by almost half. He is also currently Deputy-Chairman of Conservative Future London, and co-chairman of Conservative City Future.

Outside of politics, Ali works at the WPP owned strategy house, Millward Brown Optimor, where he is the company's youngest Associate Director. During his time at Optimor, Ali has been presented with the prestigious international award of "Consultant of the Year 2011" by the professional body CIMA, where he had previously qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant. He is also the founder and owner of a private company, Four Limited.

Ali graduated from Cambridge University, where he studied Mathematics and Computer Science. Whilst at Cambridge, Ali was on the committee for the Cambridge Union and Cambridge Future, and director of Varsity Newspaper. Ali is also currently Treasurer of Oxbridge Muslim Alumni.

Cllr Rabia Bhatti

Cllr Rabia Bhatti was born in 1990. On 6 May 2011 she became the youngest Muslim female councillor in Britain and the youngest councillor in Buckinghamshire, representing the Newtown Ward in Chesham. Prior to election she held the post of being the first President of Aylesbury College which has an intake of around 6000 students, operates a commercial restaurant run by Michelin Star Chef, a commercial gym and hair and beauty salon.

At the age of 19, she was appointed a school governor and sits on the Personnel and Staff Dismissal Committee and was also given the role of SEN Governor. At the time of her appointment she was the youngest governor in Buckinghamshire. Apart from the above roles of Councillor, Governor and President, she is an Executive member of the Chiltern Racial and Equality Council, an Executive member of the Chesham and District Association and an Executive member of the Pakistani Professionals Forum. She was selected to attend a two week programme at Oxford University called the Young Muslim Leadership Programme along with 23 others from around the country. In July 2011 she was honoured to be invited by the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yousaf Raza Gilani to have breakfast with him at his Presidential Suite in the Hilton Hotel.

In March 2011 she chaired the Chiltern Cohesion Conference which was attended by Lords, MEPs, MPs, Mayors and Councillors.

Yousuf Miah

Yousuf was born in Bangladesh and came to the UK at the age of 10 and settled in Northampton. He attended local schools before going on to study politics at Leicester and an MBA in Marketing from Durham.

Yousuf is a planner by profession and a partner with the Midlands based Hamptons CRD planning and regeneration consultancy. He is currently studying for his RICS and soon to qualify as a Chartered Surveyor. He also has interests in a publishing company.

Politically, Yousuf came into prominence in 2003 when he was elected to Northampton Borough Council and held Cabinet posts in Housing and Regeneration. A former Chairman of Northampton North Conservatives, Yousuf is an approved Conservative Parliamentary candidate and unsuccessfully fought the 2005 General Election in Burnley.

Yousuf has volunteered his time to a variety of organisations and charities over the past 15 years including serving as a member of the Northamptonshire Police Authority and school Governor. He founded the Northamptonshire Multi-Faiths Forum in 2001 and currently chairs the Northamptonshire Muslim Council. He is also a founding Trustee of the Gateway Resource Centre in Northampton and a volunteer fundraising coordinator for Diabetes UK.

He speaks French, is fluent in written and spoken Bangla and is currently writing two fact based novels. He has also kept a diary since he became active in politics in 1999.

Yousuf is a keen sportsman and watches cricket as an Executive member of Northamptonshire Cricket Club.

He is married to Nazia and they have a three year old daughter Amina.

Mike Mogul MBA, PGDip (PropDev&ProjMan), CIOB Dip, CEnv; FCIArb; FCIOB, FCMI, FRSH, AIC (USA)

Mike has 35 years' experience as a senior manager in property, construction and facilities management in both client and contractor roles in the public and private sector and had overall management responsibility for prestigious projects such as the Bank of England Sport Centre, Harley Street Clinic Springfield Hospital-Tooting, Berkeley Hotel, Tower 41 and International Trading Estate-Hayes.

Mike has an MBA (Management) - Partnership/PFI, Economics & Marketing from Cass Business School, City University, London, a Post Graduate Diploma (Property Development and Project Management) from South Bank University – 1982. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building, a Member of the Society for the Environment and a Chartered Environmentalist.

Mike is a freeman of the City of London and a retired liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators. He is a Board Member of Poplar Housing and Regeneration Community Association, an LEA school governor and a Governor and Director of Norbury Manor Business & Enterprise College for Girls. Mike is also a Past Chairman of the Estimating Practice Committee of the Chartered Institute of Building, London and when a Councillor was a Member of the Planning Committee in Croydon.