MP Mishra was elected as the Member of Parliament for Stockport at the 2019 General Election. In January 2020, Navendu was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Shadow Secretary of State for Education Angela Rayner. After Ms. Rayner’s election as Chair and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in April 2020, he was again appointed as her PPS. His policy interests include transport, environment and housing. He is a member of several All Party Parliamentary Groups, including Rail, Fairtrade, Woods & Trees, Cricket and Beer. In addition, he is a member of Unite and USDAW trade unions.
Before entering politics, Navendu worked as a shop-floor trade unionist in Stockport before becoming an organiser for Unison trade union, where he organised care workers in precarious employment to fight against their condition.

MP Mohindra has been the Chairman of Planning for his District Council, and Local Government Finance as the Lead Member at the County Council for Finance, Property and Housing. Gagan was first elected in June 2004 as a Parish Councillor and became a District Councillor in June 2006. In 2017, he was elected onto the County Council and has been consistently promoted, ending up as Lead Member for Finance, Housing and Property.
After University at King’s College, London, he worked in financial services in London. A few years later, he left to join the family furniture retail business.He is passionate about enabling all children to have a first-rate education; and has thrown himself at helping schools and colleges thrive in his communities. He has been Governor of a well-performing primary school and currently acts as Governor of the Anderson National Autistic School in Epping Forest.
Gagan graduated from the University at King’s College in London. He enjoys watching and playing football and cricket, reading bad fiction and watching bad sci-fi. He was a surprise for his parents as he is a second-born fraternal twin.

MP Nandy was first elected as the Labour MP for Wigan in 2010. During Lisa’s time in Parliament, she has served on the front bench in a number of roles, including Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Shadow Children’s Minister and Shadow Minister for Civil Society.
Before entering Parliament, Lisa worked for the youth homelessness charity Centrepoint and The Children’s Society. She is also the co-founder of the think tank Centre for Towns which was set up to ensure priority is given to the viability and prosperity of Britain’s towns.
Lisa completed her undergraduate studies in politics at Newcastle University and received her master’s in public policy from Birbeck, University of London.

Lord Paul is a Non-affiliated Life peer who has sat under this title in the Lords since 12 November 1996.

Lord Patel is a Crossbench Life peer who has sat under this title in the Lords since 3 March 1999.

Lord Kamlesh Patel is a prominent British politician and member of the House of Lords, having been appointed in 2021. As of 2024, he serves as the Chair of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) England, where he advocates for health equity and improved healthcare services.

Before his peerage, Patel was an influential figure in local government, serving as the Chair of the Yorkshire and the Humber region for the Labour Party. He has a strong background in community work and has championed issues such as mental health and social justice.

An outspoken advocate for diversity and inclusion, Lord Patel has played a pivotal role in promoting these values within the NHS and broader society. Indiaspora is proud to have Lord Kamlesh Patel in our Global Government Leaders List.

He was previously Secretary of State for International Development from 24 July 2019 to 13 February 2020, and Minister of State for Employment at the Department of Work and Pensions from 9 January 2018 until 24 July 2019.

Lord Popat is a Conservative Peer and Party Whip and was appointed as the Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Rwanda and Uganda in January 2016. In September Prime Minister Boris Johnson extended Lord Popat’s Trade Envoy brief to include Democratic Republic of Congo. He became a Member of the House of Lords back in July 2010 and is the first Gujarati to represent the Conservative Party in the House of Lords. From January 2013 to March 2015 Lord Popat served as a Minister of the Crown for the Departments of Business, Innovation and Skills, and Transport, as well as a Lord-in-Waiting and a member of Her Majesty’s Household
After completing his studies, Lord Popat held a number of positions, including trainee accountant at Rockware Glass, and UDT Finance (Barclays). After practising as an accountant in the late 1970s, Lord Popat specialised in business and corporate finance. He remains an Affiliate Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. Lord Popat diversified into the healthcare sector in the late 1980s and the hospitality sector in the late 1990s, and secured a master franchise with the Intercontinental Hotels Group for Express by Holiday Inn. He is a founding Director of St Luke’s Hospice, Harrow. Lord Popat founded and funds a registered charity, the Lord Dolar Popat Foundation.
Lord Popat sponsored himself through night school at Kilburn Polytechnic by taking jobs including working as a dishwasher, waiter, and grill chef at a Wimpey Bar on Kilburn High Street. He is a long suffering supporter of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. Last year, Lord Popat published his award winning book “A British Subject” with a foreword from David Cameron which outlines his journey from Uganda – where he was expelled from by the brutal dictator Idi Amin – through to establishing himself in business and politics.

Lord Rana is the first ethnic businessman to be elected President of the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce, the region’s biggest business organisation. He has actively promoted business, education, political and cultural links between India and Northern Ireland. He was appointed by the Government of India as Honorary Consul for India to Northern Ireland from 2004-2012 and then reappointed in 2014.
He was awarded the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1996. He was elected President of GOPIO (Global Organisation of People of Indian Origin) International in 2009 and is currently the Chairman of GOPIO International, headquartered in Mauritius. He has also been awarded Pravasi Bharti Samman Award by Dr Abdul Kalam.

Lord Rami Ranger CBE is an Ambassador of the Conservative Party’s Treasurer and was honoured to Chair and host the Conservative Foreign & Commonwealth annual fundraising dinner twice and raised thousands of pounds for the Party apart from being a significant donor to the Party himself. He is a Fellow of The Prince’s Trust and served on the Prime Minister’s Apprenticeship Delivery Board as an Apprenticeship Ambassador for the Food and Drink Industry. He is also a Patron of Combat Stress which supports the mental health of members of their illustrious Armed Forces, and support many other community initiatives.
He has also served as Co-Chairman of The Conservative Friends of India and currently, he is a Patron of the organisation. His company, Sun Mark Ltd, has won an unprecedented five consecutive Queens Awards for Enterprise in International Trade by competing with Britain’s best. No other British company has this accolade to date. They sustain thousands of British jobs with their export activities to 130 countries, and as a result, support thousands of British jobs.
As a Fellow of the Princes Trust, Rami spends his time mentoring underprivileged youth so that they too can realise their ambitions and become upstanding citizens who are in a position to contribute positively to their families and country. Rami did not have a father nor did he have an elite education or the old schoolboy network to help him in life. He says that all one needs is self-respect, work ethics, commitment and empathy for others to succeed. Rami believes in supporting education and helping to provide better facilities for students.