Kawsar Zaman (born 1990) is the vice-chair of the Muslim Council of Britain's Youth Committeeand is being sponsored through university by 2 Hare Court. He has conducted internships at Allen & Overy LLP, the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office and more recently with the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee. An ambassador of the Social Mobility Foundation, he was a founding member of Dare London and in 2006 the recipient of the Channel S community award for 'Contributions to the Bangladeshi Community. Kawsar has written a controversial article in The Guardian newspaper headlined 'How to alienate Muslims even more' Kawsar has recently been employed as a journalist for Write Here Right Now, a scheme funded under the Department of International Development through to March, he is part of the core-editorial team, consisting of teenagers ranged between 13-19 based in Greater London.
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