Ammar Mirza CBE

Private sector Board member, Chair of Business Growth Board

A multi-award winning entrepreneur who has helped establish several hundred businesses in the North East.  Ammar is Founder and Chairman of Asian Business Connexions and President of the Federation of Asian Business alongside being a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership & Management (FInstLM), and Royal Society of Arts(FRSA).  He has a particular interest in enterprise education as Chair of Governors of a Primary School, Chair of the Progression Forum and a visiting Professor of Practice at Newcastle University, and having helped launch the Primary Inspiration through Enterprise (PIE) Project Charity.

Ammar is the North East LEP Board’s local SME representative.

You can read Ammar’s Register of Interests here.