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Hanif is currently employed as the Director of a Charitable Foundation and was previously the Chief Executive of a leading Community organization in Leeds and then Chief Operating Officer of an International Humanitarian Charity. He has over 20 years’ experience of operating at a strategic level has been a Non-Executive Director of several boards.

Having developed and implemented a plethora of community-related projects across health, sport, young people’s work and regeneration during his career, Hanif has a significant understanding of community engagement processes.

He has previously completed a six-year period as on the national Sport England Board where he was also Chair of the Project Committee and the Board lead for Equality & Diversity.

His work on inclusion and diversity stretches back over the past two decades and he is a certified practitioner in this regard with the National Centre of Diversity.

In addition to his paid role, he is currently an Ambassador at the Children’s Heart Surgery Fund in Leeds and a board member at Yorkshire County Cricket Club (where he became the first individual of BME origin to be appointed to the board in the 153-year history of the club).

His prolonged period of working alongside and supporting communities at a local, regional and national level was recognized in July 2014 through being awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Leeds Beckett University for ‘services to the public’ and on receiving an OBE in the Queen's Honours for ‘Services to the Community’ in June 2016.