Roohi Zuberi

Additional positions held Ex-Member Railway Board Ex-Member Telephone Advisory Board Ex-Member Lok Adalat, Aligarh Ex-Member District Consumer Forum Vice President Akansha Samiti, Formed by District Magistrate

Awards Bhartiya Nari Shakti Award for her role in women empowerment on 29 January 2014 at the Constitutional Club of India, New Delhi Rashtriya Gaurav Award, in the field of Social Work by the India International Friendship Society (2014)

Family background

Roohi Zuberi hails from a prominent family in Marehra, Uttar Pradesh, India. Her father, the late Mr. Bashir Mahmood Zuberi (Advocate) (1921–1993), was a notable freedom fighter during the Indian Independence Struggle against British Raj. He was also a social worker, politician, and the Chairman of the Marehra Municipal Board. Throughout his life, he dedicated much of his personal wealth to the development and welfare of the local community. In his honor, the B. M. Zuberi Hospital, a civil government hospital in Marehra, is named after him.

Zuberi is also related to Maulvi Bashir Uddin, who devoted his resources to establishing Islamia College in Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, in 1888. This institution aimed to provide educational opportunities similar to those of the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College. Uddin was a member of the Indian National Congress, known for wearing Khadi and for publishing the respected paper al-Bashir.

Roohi Zuberi is also the daughter-in-law of Dr Sir Ziauddin Ahmad, a distinguished mathematician and former Parliamentarian. He was a key figure in the Aligarh Movement and served as Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, for three terms, later becoming its Rector.

Additionally, her maternal uncle, Matin Zuberi, was a scholar of international relations. Born in Marehra on July 15, 1930, he earned his master's degree from Aligarh Muslim University before continuing his studies at St. Anthony's and Balliol Colleges at the University of Oxford. Upon returning to India, he became a senior fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study in Shimla and joined Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in 1978, where he taught until 1995.

As a professor of international politics and disarmament studies at JNU, Professor Zuberi was an influential observer of international nuclear developments. He served on the National Security Advisory Board during three terms (1990–91, 1998–99, and 2000–01) and contributed to the Draft Indian Nuclear Doctrine. and a daughter, Sadaf Ahmad.