Sandra Mostafa Kabir (Bengali: সান্ড্রা মোস্তফা কবির; born 2 November 1949) is a British philanthropist, executive director of BRAC UK, Labour Party politician and councillor for Queensbury.
She has experience in poverty alleviation and people's empowerment programme design and implementation, fund raising and advocacy, spanning Asia, Africa and the United Kingdom.
Kabir joined Concerned Women for Family Planning, which received funding from FPIA but also eventually came under pressure from USAID.
[7] In 1979, she played a major role in the creation of El Taller, a worldwide NGO movement initially based in Spain and then in Tunisia.
[8] In 1995, Kabir moved to the United Kingdom where she worked in senior capacities with Interact Worldwide, Reproductive Health Alliance and ICOMP.
[9] On 24 January 2011, the founding leaders of BRAC UK – Professor Patrick Vaughan (Chairperson) and Sandra Kabir (Executive Director) – both announced that they would be retiring in early 2011.
[12] In 1988, Kabir was awarded the international STIMEZO Prize, for her contribution to making abortion safe worldwide.