Waheed Alli, Baron Alli
| The Lord Alli | |
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| Chancellor of De Montfort University | |
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In office 2006–2016 |
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| Vice-Chancellor | Philip Tasker Dominic Shellard |
| Preceded by | The Baroness Prashar |
| Succeeded by | The Baroness Lawrence |
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Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
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Assumed office 18 July 1998 Life Peerage |
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Waheed Alli 16 November 1964 Croydon, London, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Profession | Media entrepreneur |
Waheed Alli, Baron Alli (born 16 November 1964) is a British multimillionaire media entrepreneur and politician. He was co-founder and managing director of Planet 24, a TV production company, and managing director at Carlton Television Productions. He was, until November 2012, chairman of ASOS.com. He is the Chief Executive of Silvergate Media, which purchased two of the media rights previously held by Chorion Ltd, where Alli was former chairman. He is a Labour life peer and is described as one of only a few openly gay Muslim politicians in the world.
In British political terms he is considered Asian, though both of his parents are from the Caribbean; (see Indo-Caribbean). His mother, a nurse, is from Trinidad, and his estranged father, a mechanic, is from British Guiana (now Guyana). His mother was Hindu and his father Muslim; he has two brothers, who are also Muslims. He was named one of the 20 most important Asians in British media in 2005. At the same time, he maintains ties with his Caribbean roots, both with other British-Guyanese politicians such as Valerie Amos and Trevor Phillips, and with President Bharrat Jagdeo. He is one of a group of highly successful Guyanese people in Britain (Michael White of The Guardian refers to them as the "Guyanese mafia"), which includes Raj Persaud, Herman Ouseley and David Dabydeen, Cynthia Pine, Keith Waithe and Rudolph Dunbar.
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