Nosheena Mobarik, Baroness Mobarik

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Nosheena Shaheen Mobarik, Baroness Mobarik CBE (born October 16, 1957 in Mian Channu , Punjab , Pakistan ) is a British businesswoman and life peer .

Life

Mobarik's father had a business in Pakistan that dealt with the ironing of cotton. She moved to Glasgow with her father when she was five or six . There she graduated from Shawlands Academy before studying economics at Glasgow Caledonian University . During her first year of study, she married Iqbal Mobarik and finally dropped out in the second year due to the impending birth of her first of two children. At the age of 29 she began again to study history and English literature at the University of Strathclyde , which she successfully completed with a BA .

Together with her husband, she founded the software company M Computer Technologies in 1997 . Since 2001 she has been a member of the Council of the Confederation of British Industry Scotland. From 2011 to 2013 she was chairman of this association and has been vice chairman since then.

In the 2014 European elections , she ran for the Scottish Conservatives in third place on the list, but failed to make it into the European Parliament. On September 19, 2014, she was promoted to the status of a Life Peer and has since officially carried the title Baroness Mobarik, of Mearns in the County of Renfrewshire . In the run-up to the referendum on Scottish independence in 2014 , she was clearly in favor of Scotland remaining in the UK and was a member of the Better Together campaign.

Awards and honors

In 2004 she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ), and in June 2014 even Commander ( CBE ).

The Scottish newspaper The Herald named her one of the 50 most influential women in Scotland in 2012.

In August 2012, the Pakistani state awarded her the Order of Tamgha-i-Imtiaz (Medal for Outstanding Achievement).

In January 2013 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait on myparliament.info (English) accessed on February 6, 2015
  2. ↑ a b c Portrait on dailyrecord.co.uk (English) accessed on February 6, 2015
  3. ↑ a b Portrait on heraldscotland.com from July 2011 ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) accessed on February 6, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.heraldscotland.com
  4. ↑ Announcement of the nomination for Life Peer on scottishconservatives.com (English) accessed on February 6, 2015
  5. ↑ a b c d e personal homepage (English) accessed on February 6, 2015
  6. ↑ Announcement of Scottish applicants for the 2014 European elections, accessed on February 6, 2015
  7. ^ Announcement of the Life Peer nomination on thegazette.co.uk, accessed on February 6, 2015
  8. ↑ List of the 50 most influential women in Scotland 2012 on heraldscotland.com ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Eng.) accessed on February 6, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.heraldscotland.com
personal data
SURNAME Mobarik, Nosheena, Baroness Mobarik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shaheen Mobarik, Nosheena, Baroness Mobarik (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British businesswoman, life peer
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Pakistan