Alveena Malik - Principal Associate

Alveena is a Principal Associate at iCoCo with lead responsibility on Education and Cohesion policy as well as Intercultural Dialogue. She has overseen the development of the DCSF Community Cohesion Schools Toolkit, British Council Intercultural Dialogue resource guide, CDF/CLG Take Part Directory and has conducted a number of national and local reviews into education and cohesion issues.

Alveena was formerly CRE Head of Communities and Integration Policy and was responsible for promulgating new thinking around the Integration agenda and mainstreaming this into Whitehall policy making . She led the development of CRE policy on issues of Migration, Segregation, Extremism, Interfaith dialogue and Conflict resolution and mediation.

As Deputy Convenor of the Government's Preventing Extremism Together (PET) Task Group in 2005, she presented a number of proposals to the Home Secretary to consider in tackling deprivation, disaffection and disengagement amongst Muslim communities in Britain. In 2007 she was appointed as Special  Adviser to the Communities and Local Government (CLG) Select Committee on Migration and Cohesion and is currently Special Adviser to the CLG Select Committee on Prevent. In 2008 Alveena joined the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) for six months as Policy adviser to the Chair, Trevor Phillips. In 2009 Alveena became Adviser to the Young Foundation and in 2010 she has been appointed as a Faith Adviser to the Secretary of State for Communities Faith Expert Panel.