Husna Ahmad

Husna Parvin Ahmad, OBE (; born 28 June 1964) is a British humanitarian and writer, and the CEO of Global One 2015, a women-led INGO. She is Secretary-General of the World Muslim Leadership Forum. She was the chief executive officer of the Faith Regen Foundation.

Early life Husna Ahmad was born in Dhaka, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), and moved to the United Kingdom at the age of four.

Career From June 2006 to March 2013, Ahmad was CEO of Faith Regen Foundation. She was a member of Faith Regen Foundation's staff since its inception in October 2001 and has previously held the position of director of operations.

Ahmad sat on the advisory board of the East London Mosque. She held the role of deputy chief executive of the Forum against Islamophobia and Racism and was a principal officer in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. She previously sat on the Department for Work and Pensions' Ethnic Minority Advisory Group (EMAG). She also sat on the Community Development Forum of the London Health Commission. She was the co-chair of the National Council of Faiths and Beliefs in Further Education. In 2008, she was a member of a Ministerial Working Group on Child Poverty in London. Also in 2009, she was invited by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office to join a British Muslims delegation to Iran.

In 2011, Ahmad joined the Centre for the Modern Family, a think tank launched by Scottish Widows to improve the understanding of the challenges facing modern British families. In 2011, she co-authored The Green Guide For Hajj, with EcoMuslim consultant Omar Faruk, the book encourages ecologically sustainable practices among Hajj pilgrims and promotes the role Muslims can play in protecting nature. In 2012, she wrote Islam and Water, the story of Hajjar second wife of the Islamic prophet Ibrahim, in particular her search for water, which is commemorated every year in the Hajj. Both books were commissioned by the Alliance of Religions and Conservation.

Between 2012 and 2015, Ahmad was a National Council member for the Royal National Lifeboat Institute, a charity saving lives at sea in the UK and Republic of Ireland. From 2012, she also held the position of Islamic Advisor to the Alliance of Religions and Conservation.

From 2015 to 2022 she was a board member for Faith in Water. In 2015, Ahmad also became a board member for the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance.

In 2016, Ahmad became a board member for BOND, a UK network for organisations working in international development.

In 2019, Ahmad undertook her role as co-chair of the Multi Faith Advisory Council to the UN Taskforce on Religion and Development, a position that she held until 2021. She remains a member of the Multi Faith Advisory Council.

In 2022, Ahmad was invited to join working group 17 of The Rockefeller Foundation and Brookings Institutes’ annual “17 Rooms” global flagship process. She is also a member of the IF20 Environment Working Group.

Ahmad continues to hold a number of positions, including Secretary General of the World Muslim Leadership Forum and Board Member MCEC Palmers Green Mosque. She is also an Honorary Fellow of the Edward Cadbury Centre at Birmingham University, UK. The ANCSSC encourages the sharing of knowledge, expertise and contextually appropriate technologies and assets among NGOs and CSOs, particularly those that have been developed in their respective organisational and operational experiences in developing countries. Held on 14 September 2022, the event was entitled Exploring the nexus between civil society, government, and the private sector in promoting economic inclusion, digitalization, and education. Convened in collaboration with Act Alliance on 8 July 2022, the event was hosted by Deloitte in New York, USA, under the title Reimagining our world together: Building Global South multi-stakeholder partnerships for an inclusive COVID-19 recovery. The side-event was entitled Local government and civil society working towards an integrated approach to building resilience and inclusion by accelerating adaptation in the MENA region and African countries.

Awards and recognition In 2004, Husna Ahmad won the Organisation Ethnic award from the European Federation of Black Women Business Owners. The awards are open to black and minority ethnic women who start or run a business.

In April 2010, she received an Ambassador for Peace award from the Universal Peace Federation. In 2010, she was also appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours for her services to disadvantaged people for work promoting social justice with disadvantaged communities.

Personal life Husna Ahmad lives in New Southgate, London with her husband, Saif Uddin Ahmad, who is the Chair of McAndrew Leadership, an international development consultancy. She has six children (born between 1983 and 2005). Global One

Islam and Water Alliance of Religions and Conservation

Islamic Farming Toolkit Global One

Global One 2015, South-South in Action series of UNOSSC Global One

Green Guide to Hajj and Umrah Ummah for Earth