Contact details
Westminster
House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 5353
Biography
Councils, public bodies
Member, Rampton/Swann Committee of Inquiry into Educational Problems of Ethnic Minority Children 1978-82;
Deputy chair, Commission for Racial Equality 1985-90;
Vice-President, UK Council for Overseas Students Affairs 1989-99;
Chair, Commission on Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain 1998-2001;
President, British Association of South Asia Scholars 2004-07
International bodies
Founding Member and Past President, Research Committee on Political Philosophy of International Political Science Association
Political interests
Race relations, higher education, ethnic conflicts, global justice, international politics, multiculturalism
Countries of interest
Canada, India, USA
Name, style and title
Raised to the peerage as Baron Parekh, of Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire 2000
Register of Interests
5: Land and property
House in Kenton, Middlesex owned jointly with wife from which rental income is received
10: Non-financial interests (a)
Director & Vice President, Nirman Foundation (US-based family foundation)
10: Non-financial interests (c)
Member of Court, University of Bedfordshire
Member of Court, University of Hull
10: Non-financial interests (e)
Trustee, Anne Frank Educational Trust
Trustee, Rathbone Trust
Trustee, Black Umbrella Trust