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David Ritchie CB, Chair of the Oldham
Independent Review, was born in Manchester and spent most of his career
in the Department of the Environment & Transport , Including 7
years in their North West Regional Office. Until February 2001 he
was Regional Director of the Government office for the West Midlands
and responsible for a wide variety of economic, socail and environmental
programmes in the region. |
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Maqsood Ahmad lives in Rochdale and
is a former Director of Kirklees Racial Equality Council. He is a
member of the Stephen Lawrence Steering Group and an Assistant Inspector
with Her Majestey's Inspectorate of Constabulary. |
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Jan Atkinson OBE, the former headteacher
of Stretford High School which eas established in 1990 by the amalgamation
of two multicultural single sex schools. The amalgamated schools saw
a significant improvement in achievement levels and recognition by
OFSTED. |
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Waqar Azmi works as a national director
of equality and diversity at TMP worldwide, he is also the national
convenor of the British Federation of Racial Equality Councils. He
was formerly Chief Executive of Herefordshire and Worcestershire Racial
Equality Council and Race Equality West Midlands. |
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Clive Dutton OBE has directed and
implemented large-scale community-based urban regeneration initiatives
to achieve social inclusion in deprived multi-cultural areas for the
last 13 years. He is Director of Regeneration for Gallagher Estates
and formerly Head of Regeneration with Sandwell Metropolitan Borough
Council. He was seconded to the DETR team which produced the Government's
Urban White Paper and is also a member of a Social Exclusion Unit
policy action team. |
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Dr Zubaida Haque, previously studied
at Manchester University, as well as Oxford and Cambridge University
where she carried out research into the educational achievements of
the Bangladeshi community. She contributed chapters on education and
social policy issues for the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic
Britain, and has worked in Bangladesh for both the World Bank and
the UN. |
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Sir James Sharples was Chief Constable
of Merseyside for almost 10 years until 1998 and is a former President
of the Association of Chief Police Officers. A police officer for
35 years, he has experience of providing a policing service in sensitive
situations, and of a command role during serious public order situations.
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