Khalid Hameed, Baron Hameed, CBE, DL (born 1 July 1941) is the chairman of Alpha Hospital Group, and chairman and chief executive officer of the London International Hospital. Prior to this, he was the executive director and chief executive officer of the Cromwell Hospital in London. He hails from Lucknow, India but has lived in the UK since 1968.
He chairs the Commonwealth Youth Exchange Council. He is a board member of the British Muslim Research Centre, and also the Ethnic Minorities Foundation. He is an executive member of the Maimonides Foundation and a trustee of The Little Foundation. He received a CBE in the 2004 New Year's Honours. Hameed supports various charities and was awarded the Sternberg Award for 2005 for his contribution to further Christian - Muslim - Jewish Relations. He has received several national and international honours from various countries, including the United Kingdom. He is a governor of International Students House; president of The Little Foundation; chairman of The Woolf Institute of Abrahamic Faiths, and is a vice-president of the Friends of the British Library.
He is involved with inter-religious matters and lectures on this subject. He has registered employment as Chairman of Lucknow International Hospital and as a Director of Proton Treatment Ltd from 2016 until its dissolution in 2023.
He was appointed by Her Majesty the Queen as the first Asian high sheriff of Greater London for the year 2006–2007. The office of High sheriff is 1,000 years old and is the second oldest office in the country after the monarchy.
In February 2007, it was announced by the House of Lords Appointments Commission that he will be made a life peer and will sit as a Crossbencher. The peerage was gazetted on 27 March 2007 as Baron Hameed, of Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden and Lord Hameed was introduced on 26 April 2007, taking his seat between Navnit Dholakia, Baron Dholakia and Greville Janner, Baron Janner.He made his maiden speech during a debate on War Powers and Treaties on 31 January 2008, being praised for his society and community work by the following speaker, Ted Rowlands, Baron Rowlands. He was also named British Asian of the year 2007. Lord Hameed has spoken eleven times in the House between 2007 and 2014 and voted 141 times between 2008 and 2019. In between the 2019 and 2024 elections, Hameed claimed £27,628 in allowances for showing up to parliament 98 times, despite not speaking, not voting, never sitting on a committee, never holding a government post, and never sending a written question.
He was awarded Padma Shri in 1992 and the Padma Bhushan, "third in hierarchy of civilian awards", by the Government of India in 2009. He was the Chief Guest at Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas 2010 held in New Delhi.
He is married to Dr Ghazala Afzal, who was appointed High Sheriff of Greater London for 2015–16 and has three children.
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