Baroness Sayeeda Warsi

Sayeeda, Baroness Warsi, Britain's first Muslim Cabinet Minister, is also a lawyer, businesswoman and racial justice campaigner and has been consistently voted one of the 500 most influential Muslims in the world.

Appointed to the House of Lords as a life peer at the age of thirty-six, she served as Chairman of the Conservative Party, in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and as Minister for Faith and Communities. She is advisor at Georgetown University Washington D.C, a member of the International Advisory Board on FORB, University of Notre Dame and Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Greater Manchester.

She has also been awarded Honorary Doctorates from Aston, Birmingham City, and Bolton Universities, as well as from the University of Law. Sayeeda is author of two books: The Enemy Within , A Tale of Muslim Britain, and Muslims Don’t Matter.

She was Co Presenter of the political reality show Make Me Prime Minister and is a regular daytime TV presenter and documentary maker, she has also launched her own Podcast ‘A Muslim and A Jew Go There’.