Advisory Board

Sabiha Rumani Malik, BSc, MA

Sabiha Rumani Malik, BSc, MA is founder and head of The World Bee Project CIC, a community interest company (CIC). Sabiha perceives the Earth as one system of interconnected elements with all social and economic systems embedded in nature’s system. Sabiha believes that we need to integrate ecological approaches into a new holistic approach to resilience that looks at food production and nutritional diversity at multiple scales, with socially based approaches from farms right up to our global food systems.
 
Sabiha is the founder of the UK charity Sanghata Global, and designer of its uniquely innovative, award-winning Frontier Market Scouts (FMS) entrepreneurship education program serving in 30 different countries. In 2012 Sanghata Global became a founding partner of Village Capital.
 
At its inception in 2007, Sabiha was an associate founder at Singularity University, NASA Ames, California. Before that, she was a senior director at Foster and Partners, advising on strategy and creating design concepts that include the re-design of the Reichstag, Berlin, and the pink-granite clad extension to the Joslyn Museum, Omaha Nebraska.
 
In 2001, Sabiha designed jewelry collections for De Beers-LVMH, and founded ‘Diamonds for Humanity’, lauded by the then UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs and Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Africa, Dr Ibrahim Gambari. She is an associate founder at the Lifeboat Foundation. A transpersonal psychotherapist, she has worked with women and children in inner-city London.
 
Read her LinkedIn profile.