DirectorMaslaha
Raheel Mohammed is the founder and director of Maslaha which aims to change and challenge the conditions that create inequalities for Muslim communities at a local and systemic level.
Under his leadership Maslaha has won the Innovation Mindset Challenge, a global competition, for our work in mental health set by the Rockefeller Foundation and Columbia University.
He has also been profiled as one of Britain’s 50 New Radicals in The Observer newspaper for pioneering creative change to some of society’s most difficult issues.
He is a regular speaker at national and international conferences and events, most recently the World Islamic Economic Forum, where he was a main speaker on social entrepreneurship and social innovation.
Under his direction Maslaha has created award-winning resources which tackle inequalities in areas such as the criminal justice system, health, education, the role of women in Islam, and the historical relationship between Islam and Europe.
Our numerous health resources have reached over 19,500 patients directly and seen as examples of good practice and innovative in its use of technology and communication.
Our exhibitions, in partnership with the British Council, have toured 35 cities in 11 countries, with over 55,000 visitors, plus over 35,000 unique online visitors from 143 countries.
Raheel also currently sits on an advisory board to the Ministry of Justice looking at the disproportionate number of young Muslim men and Afro-Caribbean men in the criminal justice system following the launch of the Young Review.
He is also about to begin a new project, which creates whole school change using an award-winning Colombian model of education.
Raheel helped set up and was the Assistant Director at the award-winning Offscreen Education programme (now the Crossway Foundation), designed to raise awareness of Middle East and Muslim cultures through art.
He has previously been a journalist.