Adnan Abidali
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Skills: | English, Languages |
| Groups: | Oxford Entrepreneurs |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | University of Oxford |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | CMF Government Initiative-based Forum for Intercultural Dialogue |
| Position: | Consultant |
| Time period: | January 2006 - Present |
| Description: | Appointed as consultant and representative as well as being the youngest member of the Forum.
Raised £63,000 for the Forum through private donations. Met Tony Blair at the launch. Responsible for advising on intercultural projects and forming diverse networks of support with communities. |
| Employer: | TKM Outreach Program |
| Position: | Founder & Mentor |
| Time period: | December 2004 - Present |
| Description: | Founded outreach programs in London seeking to mentor and teach youths three years ago.
Starting with four individuals, the program now includes over 40 individuals and is expanding. Through empathy & effective communication established long term mentoring relationship with mentees. |
| Employer: | Saifee Foundation UK |
| Position: | Organisation for Promoting Business – Speaker |
| Description: | Advised in organising a business-promoting seminar in London and invited as speaker to 200 people.
Speech focused on promoting a culture of entrepreneurship amongst job-oriented 20-35 year olds. |
| Employer: | Oxford Entrepreneurs |
| Position: | Alumni Member |
| Description: | Participated in a business idea competition – “Idea Idol”.
Attended various events organised by the OE society, enabling me to network with businessmen. |
| Employer: | Sighatul Yemen Development Organisation |
| Position: | Internal Analyst |
| Time period: | June 2006 - September 2006 |
| Description: | Developed a full strategic review of the management functions of three sites for a development program responsible
for the welfare of 12,000 people. All work and proposals carried out in 3 languages – Arabic, English & Gujrati. Responsible for increasing operational efficiency by 25% through redefining management roles. Made recommendations through a performance improvement package e.g. introduced employment rewards strategy. Reduced burden on management for the 800 visitors arriving weekly by 30% through streamlining of transportation and reservation services. Resulted in rigorous change in management with new taskforce set up as a direct result of proposals. |
| Employer: | Nimble Business Solutions & IAC – Consultancy |
| Position: | Junior Analyst |
| Time period: | August 2005 - September 2005 |
| Description: | Evaluated management needs of IAC in organising annual charity events in different global venues for +100,000
people. Responsible for analysing the Olympics 2012 Candidature process & sought implementation for candidate cities. Detailed an 87 page planning manual for candidate cities aimed at producing seamless integration of services. |
| Employer: | Founded outreach programs in London seeking to mentor and teach youths three years ago. |
| Position: | Legal Pupil |
| Time period: | June 2007 |
| Description: | Worked as a ‘pupil’ to the senior most prosecutor in the UK on a high profile terrorist case.
As part of the legal team, used strong analytical skills and critical thinking in preparing strategic response to actions by the defence. Resulted in suspect being convicted and sentenced. |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of Oxford |
| Time period: | 2004 - 2007 |
| Degree: | Politics, Philosophy & Economics, BA |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | Fencing, Endurance Swimming, Football, Cycling, Photography, Film Society, Safari, Sudoku & Scrabble |
