Amir Bhatia, Baron Bhatia
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Amirali Alibhai 'Amir' Bhatia, Baron Bhatia, OBE (b. 18 March 1932) is a British businessman.
An Ismaili Muslim born in East Africa, Bhatia was educated in schools in Tanzania and India. He is married to Nurnamu Amersi and has three daughters. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1972.
Bhatia was Chairman and managing director of Forbes Campbell International Ltd. 1980-2001. He is the chair and co-founder of the Ethnic Minority Foundation and the Council of Ethnic Minority Voluntary Sector Organisations (CEMVO), and a former trustee of various charitable organisations, including the National Lottery Charities Board and Oxfam, serving as Chairman of Oxfam Trading.
Bhatia received the OBE in 1997. In 2001, he was made a life peer as Baron Bhatia, of Hampton in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, one of the first 'people's peers'. He sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.
In 2006 he was and as of July 2006 is the chair of the British Edutrust fund, the organisation planning to sponsor Rhodesway School
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