Mohamed Amersi
 Mohamed Amersi    (lawyer, businessman) | |
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| Born | 20 April 1960 |
| Founder of | Conservative Friends of the Middle East and North Africa |
Former barrister and solicitor Mohamed Amersi is a British businessman who founded and chairs the Inclusive Ventures Group. He is chairman of QML Group.
Philanthropy
Also a philanthropist, Mohamed Amersi is founder and chairman of the Amersi Foundation, which has made contributions across a range of issues, including multi-faith and youth programmes to the arts and heritage, education, anti-slavery, climate change, technology and poverty reduction. He also holds a number of chairmanship and advisory roles in the charity sector.[1]
Political activity
Mohamed Amersi is a Conservative Party donor. He donated £10,000 each to Boris Johnson and Michael Gove during the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election.[2]
According to Tom Burgis of the Financial Times:
Mohamed Amersi is a longstanding client of Quintessentially, the “concierge” service that co-Chairman of the Conservative Party Ben Elliot co-owns. After Amersi became a top-tier Quintessentially client, Ben Elliot arranged for him to travel to a royal retreat in Scotland to dine with the heir to the throne Prince Charles, whose wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, is Elliot’s aunt. Ben Elliot solicited Tory donations from Amersi and his Russian partner Nadezhda Rodicheva even before he was party co-chair, Amersi said. The couple have given £750,000 since 2017. Amersi belongs to the Leaders Group of donors who meet over lunch monthly with ministers.[3]
COMENA
Mohamed Amersi is the sole named shareholder[4] of a group called the Conservative Friends of the Middle East and North Africa (COMENA).[5] A decision on whether the Conservative Party gives COMENA full affiliation is expected in September 2021.[6]
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:A bitter Middle East crisis at the heart of the Conservative Party | Article | 6 August 2021 | Peter Oborne | This crisis will not - thank goodness - claim lives as the Iraq War did. But it will damage Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who has already found himself involved in a series of sleaze investigations, of which this is the most personally dangerous for him. |
References
- ↑ "Institute for New Economic Thinking - Mohamed Amersi"
- ↑ "Boris Johnson has received £500,000 in donations since May"
- ↑ "Tory chair accused of mixing business and political interests"
- ↑ "CONSERVATIVE FRIENDS OF MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA LIMITED"
- ↑ "National security is threatened when politics is in thrall to cash"
- ↑ "Conservatives' influential Middle East forum unscathed by donor row"
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