Zehra is the Project Leader for UpRising Birmingham.

Zehra has more than twenty years experience of supporting and working on projects in the charitable and voluntary sector.  She graduated from the University of Warwick in European Law and undertook a Masters Degree in Law at the London School of Economics. She started off her professional career as a lawyer with an international law firm, based in London and Brussels. Her social activism then took over and she pursued a lifelong ambition to undertake human rights and international development work overseas, working with the likes of the British Council and UNICEF and in areas as diverse as access to justice, governance, gender, humanitarian work, HIV & AIDS and health. She was then headhunted to work at the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan on an Asian Development Bank funded legal and economic reform project.

For the last few years, she has taken on a number of roles with the Conservative Party, including working in Stourbridge in the Black Country for Margot James MP. She has always been actively involved as an advisor and volunteer in the third sector, particularly in youth affairs, female empowerment and social cohesion and in 2005 even helped set up a development charity in Pakistan focussed on education and training and served as its Vice-President.

Contact:

zehra.zaidi@youngfoundation.org or call 020 8980 6263