Mushtaq Ahmad OBE (born 12 November 1942) is a Scottish Labour Party politician who served as the Lord Lieutenant of Lanarkshire from 2010 until 2017.
[1] Ahmad was born on 12 November 1942 in British India where he grew up in the city of Lahore.
He undertook teacher training at Jordanhill College, and went on to teach economics in Scotland and then East London.
Returning to Scotland, he organised an adult education programme for 17 years.
He was appointed to the post of Lord Lieutenant on 11 November 2010, following the retirement of Gilbert Cox.