#35 Ram Gidoomal

Ram Gidoomal CBE FRSA FIC, LLD (Hon), D Litt (Hon), D Univ, Honorary Vice President Institute of Business Ethics, Honorary Member of the Faculty of Divinity Cambridge University, Chair of South Asian Development Partnership, Chair of SHEIN External ESG Advisory Board, former chair of Cotton Connect Ltd. and Honorary Vice President and a former Trustee of The Leprosy Mission England and Wales.

Past roles include Chair of Allia Ltd. Chair Fair Trade pioneers Traidcraft plc and UK Group Chief Executive and Vice Chair of the Inlaks Group, an international niche food production and marketing company with 7000 employees in 15 countries, Board Member of the International Justice Mission, Crown appointee to the Court and Council of Imperial College, Vice-Chair of the St Georges University Medical School, an external member of the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee for the UK Equalities and Human Rights Commission, Honorary Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs, Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship at Middlesex University, a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and co-founder of the Christmas Cracker Charity Trust which engaged over 50,000 young people in the UK to raise US Dollars 10 million for good causes in the developing world. He is author of several books including ‘Sari n Chips’, ‘The UK Maharajahs’, 'The British and How to Deal with them - Doing Business with Britain's Ethnic Communities', 'How Would Jesus Vote?' and his memoirs: ‘MY SILK ROAD – The achievements and struggles of a British Asian Refugee’.

Below are links to the organisations mentioned during the interview:

Integrity Music a subdivision of David C Cook (Ram served as a trustee on this board)
www.davidccook.com

SHEIN (Ram chairs the External ESG Advisory Board)
www.sheingroup.com

Whole Word Institute (Ram serves as a trustee)
wholewordinstitute.com

My Silk Road
https://pipparannbooks.com/book/my-silk-road/

Ram on Linkedin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ram-gidoomal-cbe-ba99744

The eBooks for Sari n Chips and How Would Jesus Vote? for both kindle and iPad, are available here (note - the .epub file is for ipad and the .mobi for Kindle): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15DYO8xQxgkwbZO2hmD_UeL-rlq45qQt_?usp=sharing