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Zaki Badawi

Mohammed Abdul Zaki Badawi is the founding director of the Islamic Cultural Centre in Regent's Park, London. A scholar of Islam and an expert in the expanding field of Islamic finance, he established the Muslim College in London to train Imams to work in British mosques. Dr. Badawi has acquired a national and international standing as an intellectual and a moderate voice on social and political issues. He has participated in many interfaith forums and was elected a member of the Standing Committee of the World Council of Islamic Call to dialogue with the Vatican from 1984. He is a Patron of the Prisoners of Conscience, the Maimonides Foundation for Muslim/Jewish Dialogue and is Founding member of the Religious Panel, Amnesty International. Dr Badawi is a co-founder of the Three Faiths Forum. He was appointed as Honorary Officer for the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in recognition of his outstanding contribution to race relations.

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