New Chief Executive Officer

We are delighted to welcome Sohail Faruqi to the team, as our new Chief Executive Officer.

Sohail has a lifelong commitment to tackling social inequality and barriers to inclusion and social mobility, partly driven by his own lived experiences but also from a sense of social justice. A key barrier is a lack of functional English and tackling educational inequality is a prime personal endeavour for him, as education unlocks positive life chance opportunities.

Sohail has worked as a Director of Education in local authorities and been a Chief Executive of a city council, as well as holding a Regional Director role in the civil service. For the last 13 years he has worked in the charity sector, first with a Learning Disabilities charity and prior to joining LEAH, with an education and social mobility charity.

Over the years, he has benefitted from volunteering experiences and been a trustee of several charities.