Nosheena Mobarik, Baroness Mobarik

The Right Honourable
The Baroness Mobarik
CBE MEP
Member of the European Parliament
for Scotland
Assumed office
8 September 2017[1]
Preceded by The Lord Duncan of Springbank
Personal details
Born 16 October 1957

Nosheena Shaheen Mobarik, Baroness Mobarik, CBE (born 16 October 1957)[2] is a British Conservative Member of European Parliament and Life Peer.


Career before politics

In 1997 she and her husband, Dr Iqbal Mobarik, set up M Computer Technologies, in which she remains Joint Chief Executive. She has been a member of a member of Council of the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) Scotland since September 2001 and serving a two year term as its Chairman between 2011-2013, and as its Vice-Chairman from 2013-14. Additionally Mobarik founded the Save the Bosnian People Campaign and, in 2008, the Scotland Pakistan Network[3].

She was appointed as Chairman of the Pakistan Britain Trade & Investment Forum (PBTIF) in 2012, having been asked to take on the role by Lord Green.

In June 2013 she was appointed to join the Commission on future devolution in Scotland, chaired by Lord Strathclyde, on behalf of the Scottish Conservative Party.

She is a Director and Trustee of Craigholme School, an independent school for girls, as well as a Board Member of the Glasgow Film Theatre.

Honours and awards

Mobarik was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2004 Birthday Honours,[4] and was promoted to Commander (CBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours.[5]

The state of Pakistan awarded her the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz in 2012, in recognition of her work in improving Pakistan–Scotland relations.[6]

In January 2013 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Edinburgh

She was created life peer as Baroness Mobarik, of Mearns in the County of Renfrewshire, on 19 September 2014[7] , under the Life Peerages Act 1958.

Political career

House of Lords

Since her creation as a life peer in 2014, Mobarik has sat as a conservative in the House of Lords.

She made her maiden speech to the House of Lords on 17 November 2014 in a debate on the Modern Slavery Bill and since that time has sat on the Refreshment Committee, June 2015-July 2015, the EU Financial Affairs Sub-Committee, May 2016-July 2016, and the Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Bill [HL] Special Public Bill Committee, September 2016-November 2016.

Member of European Parliament

On 6 September 2017, it was announced that she would be taking a leave of absence from the Lords, to become an MEP in the European Parliament for the Scotland electoral constituency following the resignation of Ian Duncan to take up a post within the Scotland Office [8]

As a Conservative Member of European Parliament Mobarik sits with the European Conservatives and Reformists Group.

References

  1. ↑ "Baroness Nosheena MOBARIK - History of parliamentary service - MEPs - European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu.
  2. ↑ http://myparliament.info/member/4335
  3. ↑ "Baroness Mobarik CBE - Nosheena Mobarik". www.nosheenamobarik.com. Retrieved 2018-10-04.
  4. ↑ "No. 57315". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 2004. p. 11.
  5. ↑ "No. 60895". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 2014. p. 10.
  6. ↑ About Nosheena. Nosheena Mobarik. Retrieved on 2017-04-28.
  7. ↑ "No. 60998". The London Gazette. 25 September 2014. p. 18642.
  8. ↑ "Baroness to become new Scottish Tory MEP". BBC News. 2017-09-06. Retrieved 2018-10-04.
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