Description: Rushanara Ali is an Associate Director of the Young Foundation. She is responsible for research, external relations and international projects. She has previously worked at the Communities Directorate of the Home Office, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and at the centre left think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research. She has also worked as Research Assistant to Michael Young helping to develop Tower Hamlets Summer University, a model supporting young people which has been successfully replicated around London. She also worked at Langageline, a pioneering telephone interpreting company founded by Michael Young. Rushanara is currently a Commissioner for the London Child Poverty Commission, Chair of Tower Hamlets Summer University and SummerUni London, a Board Member of Tower Hamlets College, a Trustee of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and an advisor to Tate Britain. She was a member of the Home office Working Group on Preventing Extremism established after the 7/7 London bombings.
