The awards were held amongst business Leaders and Political figures from across the Globe. From Governors of Nigeria to High Commissioners, MPs and Shadow Cabinet Ministers…reports Asian Lite News
Professor Kishan Devani BEM has once again been honoured with yet another award. He received “International Philanthropist & Humanitarian of 2023” Award at the 8th Political Summit and Awards which were held at the Houses of Parliament in the UK and the Copthorne Tara Hotel in Kensington, London.
Professor Devani expressed his joy and surprise at receiving the award which was presented to him by His Excellency Morie – High Commissioner of Sierra Leone to the UK and Cllr Michael Situ – Mayor of the London Borough of Southwark. Kishan said “I was overwhelmed at receiving such deeply humbling news! The award means a lot to me, as I believe in building bridges with communities globally in order to achieve understanding between all in our world. This award will inspire me to continue on this journey and do more for the betterment of our world and to continue working with communities across the globe”.
The awards were held amongst business Leaders and Political figures from across the Globe. From Governors of Nigeria to High Commissioners, MPs and Shadow Cabinet Ministers. Jon Ashworth MP Shadow Paymaster General received the “Parliamentarian of the Year Award 2023” at the awards too. He expressed what a huge honour this was too for him. The 9th Political Summit and Awards will be next year amongst dignitaries from all across the globe.
Welcoming Mr Devani to the organisation, Yuvraj Singh said: “I welcome Mr Kishan Devani BEM to the YouWeCan Foundation and the Yuvraj Singh Group as a Senior Advisor. With him on board, I am sure that we will accelerate our endeavours towards empowering the underprivileged cancer patients in India as well as giving financial and strategic support to the budding entrepreneurs of our country”
MrKishan Devani BEM, who is a Public Figure in the UK, engaged in many diverse segments of society, from politics to education to the charitable sector, has been appointed Senior Advisor of cricketing icon Yuvraj Singh’s company Yuvraj Singh Group. His responsibilities in this new role would be to provide strategic advice to Yuvraj Singh for the philanthropic activities that he undertakes through his non-profit organization YouWeCan Foundation. Mr Devani will also be a strategic advisor for Yuvraj Singh’s investment company YouWeCan Ventures.
Welcoming him to the organization, Yuvraj Singh said,“I welcome Mr Kishan Devani BEM to the YouWeCan Foundation and the Yuvraj Singh Group as a Senior Advisor. With him on board, I am sure that we will accelerate our endeavours towards empowering the underprivileged cancer patients in India as well as giving financial and strategic support to the budding entrepreneurs of our country. I am looking forward to our Group achieving incredible feats in the future with the support and advice from a brilliant strategist like him.”
Regarding his collaboration with Yuvraj Singh Group, Mr Kishan Devani BEM said,“I feel privileged to be appointed Senior Advisor to Yuvraj Singh Group and Yuvraj Singh’s Cancer NGO YouWeCan Foundation. I have seen first-hand the immensely life-changing work Yuvraj Singh personally does globally through his Foundation and Business Ventures. It truly is a privilege to be a part of Yuvi’s journey and playing my small part in changing the lives of millions across the globe, which he desires to achieve. Yuvi is a personal friend, an elder brother like figure to me and somebody I have got to know well personally over many years; he cares for the society, the world we live in and wants to see a world that is better for all of us to live in. Hence, becoming a Senior Advisor to his Group and Foundation is a matter of great pride for me, although first and foremost he shall always be a mate and brother to me!”
Prior to joining Yuvraj Singh Group, Kishan Devani BEM has had advisory roles within various sectors from Governance, Fundraising, Business to Education. He has carried out consultancy work for various Asian organisations, Forums and Societies in promoting youth engagement within politics matters of education and the youth.
He was honoured by Her Majesty the Queen in Her New Year’s Honours List 2020 with the British Empire Medal (BEM). He was also made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and was honoured with the Freedom of the City of London, which made him one of the youngest BAME Freemans of London. Kishan is also Associate Lecturer of Politics & International Relations, Diplomacy, Advocacy at London Metropolitan University. At the beginning of this year, Kishan Devani BEM was appointed Senior Advisor to the Danny Faure Foundation by the Former President of the Seychelles, Danny Faure. More recently he was appointed President (International Relations) of the prestigious Commonwealth Entrepreneurs Club.
Kishan Devani BEM was recently appointed Vice-President of the Green Liberal Democrats. In 2018, he was appointed Vice-President of the Liberal Democrats Campaign for Race Equality (LDCRE) & was elected Vice-Chairman of Liberal Democrats in Business. He was also the Liberal Democrats Parliamentary Candidate for Montgomeryshire in the 2019 General Election.
Yuvraj Singh, who is himself a cancer survivor, founded the YouWeCan Foundation as a non-profit organization that works to empower all people to fight cancer through Cancer Screening Programmes, Cancer Awareness Programmes, YouWeCan Cancer Treatment Fund and YWC Scholarship for Cancer Survivors. Till date, 1,50,000 people have been screened by the Foundation for different types of cancer, 1,25,000 students have been sensitized in anti-tobacco workshops, 30,000 women have been sensitized on self breast examination and 24,000 men have been counselled for tobacco cessation.
Moreover, 150 cancer survivor students have been supported through the YouWeCan Scholarship. In October 2021, YouWeCan Foundation launched the ‘Swasth Mahila, Swasth Goa’ initiative in partnership with the SBI Foundation and the Government of Goa. Under this initiative, free breast cancer screening will be done for 1 lakh women in Goa, thereby ensuring that 50% of the age eligible female population in the state is screened.
The ace cricketer launched YouWeCan Ventures in 2015 as an early age fund for startups. Through YouWeCan Ventures, Yuvraj Singh provides seed funding and angel funding capital to promising startups to help them scale up. Over the years, YouWeCan Ventures has invested in a range of startups from diverse sectors such as healthcare, wellness, edtech, beauty, sports, logistics, travel and more. The company is especially interested in partnering with and promoting tech startups that affect the society and the environment positively.
With a seasoned strategist like Kishan Devani BEM joining the Group, Yuvraj Singh’s vision of helping people across India in their fight against cancer as well as giving a boost to the start-up ecosystem of the country is going to pick up pace and many exciting developments are in the pipeline in the near future.
Kishan joins some huge names as fellow Presidents of the Club such as, Lord Peter Hain, Lord Rami Ranger, Lord Sheikh & others, reports Asian Lite News
Kishan Devani BEM, FRSA appointed President – International Relations of The Commonwealth Entrepreneurs Club. Kishan joins some huge names as fellow Presidents of the Club such as, Lord Peter Hain, Lord Rami Ranger, Lord Sheikh & others.
“I am honoured and thrilled to have been appointed President – International Relations of The Commonwealth Entrepreneurs Club, the Commonwealth is extremely important in an ever-increasing globalised world,” Kishan said.
“I am humbled to be able to work towards bringing the diverse nations of our Commonwealth closer together, build on trade & bring communities together.”
The Commonwealth comprises of 54 countries with a population of 2.5 billion people. The Commonwealth Entrepreneurs Club (CEC), a private sector initiative, is a global network of distinguished individuals with impeccable qualifications and experiences.
CEC 2030 Vision is to trade, collaborate & finance global SMEs to alleviate poverty and create jobs’ helps countries in the Commonwealth increase export through SMEs development. Since SMEs are the backbone of any country collaborating globally with the Federation of Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Government Ministries along with Multi-Nationals and Public ltd.
The network of CEC members comprises thousands of distinguished leaders from different industries, academia, lords, dames, baronesses, ministers, senators, business leaders, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, diplomats, technocrats from various Commonwealth countries, partner states, and institutions. The CEC currently has a few hundred VIPs members from multiple sectors globally, joined in the last two years. This is the fastest-growing Club to trade and collaborate to alleviate poverty by creating jobs in various sectors.
Based in London (consisting of industrialists and technocrats) with a primary focus on growth and development, the CEC Club facilitates job creation through a joint economic forum. The Club provides a platform to SME & Public Sector for trade and assistance while aiming to alleviate poverty globally in general and in the Commonwealth nations. The CEC welcomes new members globally and provides a stable collaborative base that could be used as a springboard to achieve national goals set in CEC Vision 2030 to trade, collaborate and finance global SMEs.
The vision of CEC is to, develop communities that suffer from a shortage of technology, capital, or lack of trained people and assist in their growth ans development. CEC is committed to fighting global poverty by fostering relationships between nations.
Mobin Rafiq, Founder & Chairman of The Commonwealth Entrepreneurs Club said “We are pleased to appoint Kishan Devani BEM, FRSA as President -International relations of Commonwealth Entrepreneurs Club. As you are aware CEC is now the fastest growing club focused on building bridges between the Commonwealth globally with the a vision to build trading relations, collaborate and assist global SMEs and inevitably alleviate poverty through creating jobs. We know Kishan will be an asset to The CEC to help SMEs go global and inevitably help on our journey of alleviating Poverty globally. Our motto is commonwealth is open to trade and collaboration globally, for which we believe Kishan Devani BEM, FRSA shall be an impeccable Ambassador for.”
Some of the sectors for collaboration and joint venture through CEC’s vision 2030 are:
Energy | Construction | Textile | Infrastructure | Industrial Parks | Mining | Housing | Education | Automobile | Agriculture | Finance | SMEs & MSMEs | Vocational Training | Tourism | IT | Trade | Healthcare
Membership is on an honorary basis and accessible only by invitation or by nomination. The Club website is www.thece.club.
Mr. Devani expressed his gratitude and willingness to be part of the foundation in promoting Former President Faure’s vision….reports Asian Lite News
The Danny Faure Foundation appointed Mr. Kishan Devani, BEM, FRSA as its Senior Advisor. The Chairman and Founder of the Foundation, former president Danny Faure shared ‘I have been impressed by Mr. Devani’s extensive knowledge of the pressing issues of our times that align with the five pillars of the Foundation. Together, we will reach out to the wider community to promote the work of the Foundation’.”
“I am honoured and thrilled to be appointed Senior Advisor to the Danny Faure Foundation. I look forward to working with the foundation in promoting the 5 Pillars of the Foundation and Former President Faure’s vision for the Foundation.” Said Mr Devani.
Inspired by the Founder Former President of the Seychelles – Danny Faure, their mission is to contribute towards the sustainable development of Seychelles and to join the global community in its efforts to achieve a more equitable, just, sustainable and healthy planet, for the present generation and the future generations to come.
The Danny Faure Foundation is based on five pillars and aims to
1. Promote ocean governance. It is our duty, each and every one of us, to protect our ocean- the beating blue heart of our planet.
2. Promote the Blue Economy as the next frontier of sustainable development;
3. Promote good governance, accountability and transparency for sustainable development in Africa;
4. Promote effective leadership and gender equality in a new generation of leaders in Africa;
5. Sensitize and encourage the youth to adopt positive lifestyles in shaping the country to its highest level of development- in the areas of education, health and environmental protection.
Kishan Devani BEM FRSA with Helen Morgan MP during the campaign
Thousands of lifelong Conservative voters, dismayed by Boris Johnson’s lack of decency and fed up with being taken for granted & thousands of lifelong Labour voters, choosing to lend their votes to our candidate who could defeat the Conservatives … writes Kishan Devani BEM FRSA
Millions of people across Britain are fed up with Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his failure to provide leadership throughout the pandemic and last night the voters of North Shropshire spoke for all of them.
A swing of 34.1% puts the North Shropshire result among the best every by-election victory in British politics. We’ve now beaten the Conservatives in two of their safest seats this year in two very different parts of the country.
I think the Liberal Democrats have now proven the Conservatives can be beaten, and beaten anywhere. This is One of the most sensational by-election victories in British political history.
Kishan Devani BEM FRSA with Liberal Democrat Leader Sir Ed Davey
Liberal Democrats won a 34.1% swing in North Shropshire, even a swing half that size would see us win 57 seats from the Conservatives at a General Election. The Boris Bubble has well and truly burst…
What’s extraordinary about this remarkable Lib Dem win is that North Shropshire voted leave in the referendum. Five years on from six in ten voters in North Shropshire voting for Brexit, the party that campaigned so hard to remain – the Liberal Democrats will now represent it in the Commons.
Mr Boris Johnson, the party is over’. Your government, run on lies and bluster, will be held accountable. It will be scrutinised, it will be challenged and it can and will be defeated.
Thousands of lifelong Conservative voters, dismayed by Boris Johnson’s lack of decency and fed up with being taken for granted & thousands of lifelong Labour voters, choosing to lend their votes to our candidate who could defeat the Conservatives.
Mr Manish Tiwari, a political pundit and expert in South Asian trends opined that “the switch of Indian voters from Labour to Conservative was a way of showing that it had access to power. This was its way of asserting itself as no more a mere migrant community driven by sympathy politics. However, there are fault lines as Conservative values are very often seen as a watered down by ‘imperialist’ vision and their big heroes such as Churchill have a colonial past which can never be truly accepted by Indians. However, there are even deeper conflicts with the Corbyn era Labour values which has failed to reflect the high aspirations of the well to do South Asian communities. Liberal Democrats suddenly have become a ‘new choice’ for the progressive, internationalist Indians and Asians as they want a party which is truly forward looking and not doctored by right or left wing conflicts.”
Sir Ed Davey MP Leader of the Liberal Democrats said: “North Shropshire may turn out to be a turning point. Remember how the Conservatives crowed after taking traditional Labour seats in the north of England? They said a generational shift had taken place – the default of voting the same way election after election, had been reset. They had breached the red wall. Well, earlier this year, in Buckinghamshire Liberal Democrats breached the Tories’ blue wall, with our victory in the Chesham and Amersham by-election. And now with North Shropshire yesterday, that progressive reset has occurred again. In village after village, through market towns and in farms across this beautiful stretch of countryside – once-lifelong Conservative voters have decided enough is enough.”
Liberal Democrats Party Treasurer Tilly McAuliffe also added “with this stunning victory, we have sent a powerful message to the Conservatives, that Liberal Democrats are a home for thousands of their former supporters who are decent people dismayed by Boris Johnson’s leadership. People are fed up with being ignored and taken for granted by Johnson and the Conservatives. They’re appalled by this Government’s endless incompetence, scandals and sleaze.”
Our new Lib Dem MP – Helen Morgan said in a victory speech: “Mr Johnson, you are no leader. Many of your predecessors took office because they believed in a sense of national service. That they were duty bound to do what they believed is right for our country. To represent all of us, even if we disagreed with them. Mr Johnson, this is not how you operate. Too often it is all about you and never about us.”
The Conservatives days in Number 10 are numbered and with the Lib Dems being able to beat the Conservatives in their strongholds the sky is the limit for Liberal Democrats across the country.
Kishan Devani campaigning with Helen Morgan
Kishan Devani BEM FRSA with Liberal Democrat Leader Sir Ed Davey
