Murad Qureshi

Murad Qureshi (Bengali: মুরাদ কোরেশী; born 27 May 1965) is a British Labour and Co-operative Party politician, and a former Member of the London Assembly.

As an Assembly Member, he has undertaken rapporteurships into pedicabs (cycle rickshaws)[16] and the loss of London's playing fields.

[17] The latter report called for Sport England to be consulted on all applications for developments on playing fields measuring 0.2 hectares or more, a policy which has since been adopted by the Department for Communities and Local Government.

[26] He has worked for many years to raise awareness of the crucial role of remittances in international development[27][28] with his last letter in the Financial Times generating much debate.

[29] In 2007, Qureshi hosted a meeting at City Hall which launched the Cambridge IGCSEs in Bangladesh, Pakistan and India Studies[30] with Amartya Sen's support.

Qureshi has a music record named after him, and has financially backed a British film Shongram, which is a romantic drama, set during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation struggle.

Murad Qureshi