Asim Siddiqui
Founding Trustee - External relations
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Asim Siddiqui is a founding trustee and former chairman (2003-2009) of the City Circle, with current responsibility for external relations.  He is also a founding board member of CEDAR, a European Muslim professional network, where he has lead responsibility for mentoring.
 
TIME Magazine placed Asim on its front page in 2008 as part of a cover piece on ‘Europe's Muslim Success Story.' Asim was appointed to the Iraq Commission in 2007, an independent non-partisan body. He is an elected member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He has spoken at numerous think tanks and has been regularly interviewed in the media. Asim contributes to The Guardian’s popular Commentisfree blog.
 
Asim is a member of the prime minister's UK-Indonesia Islamic Advisory Group. He has participated in Foreign & Commonwealth Office international delegations projecting British Muslims. He has chaired a session at the World Islamic Economics Forum in Jakarta in 2009. Asim has been nominated to take part in the United States International Leadership Visitor Program.
 
Asim is an Associate Director for a major investment bank in the city.  He qualified as an accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and a qualified Member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment, holding the Islamic Finance Qualification.