Professor Jawed Siddiqi, Chair of Trustees at The Monitoring Group

Professor Jawed Sidiqi was born in Karachi Pakistan. His paternal side of the family resided near the Taj Mahal in United Province region in India from where they migrated after the partition. His maternal family originated from Afghanistan settling in Karachi. Jawed’s mother died when he was only a one- year- old and his father migrated to the UK in 1960 and Jawed soon followed him that year. 

They both lived in Stoke-on Trent and were among the early migrants there. On arriving in Stoke he saw that the Asian community was primarily men with very few women and virtually no children.