To learn more about this amazing man I went here - http://www.unesco.org.uk/uploads/Biographies_GMR2011_UK%20Input.pdf
The site gives this as his biography;
Kabir Shaikh was, between 2002 and July 2009, the Director of Education for
UNRWA/ UNESCO (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees), providing education to half a million Palestinian refugee children
based in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Gaza and the West Bank, and had a staff of
over 22,000.
For over 38 years he worked in the UK on Education, holding various posts
including: Director of Education for Bournemouth, LEA; Chief Inspector for
Education in London; and Chair of the Association for Science Education’s
National Working Party on Science for a Multicultural Society. Kabir has served
on several national committees in various capacities such as Chair of the
Partnership Board for Leicester City Education; Member of the Advisory Forum to
the Royal Naval School of Educational Training and Technology; Chair of the
Local Education Authorities for the Provision of Science Services; Vice President
of the Commonwealth Association of Science, Technology and Mathematics
Education. His work has involved the Commonwealth Secretariat, UNESCO,
Development Education and the British Council. He is a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Chemistry.
In 2003 Kabir was awarded a CBE for services to Education in England
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