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Atma
Singh, County Hall's link with the media and great friend of the
Asian food and drink industry during Ken Livingstone's reign, is to
throw his hat in the ring for the London Mayor 2012 elections.
Atma Singh,is a former Policy
Adviser to the Mayor of London on Asian Affairs from June 2001 to
July 2007. He has shaped the strategy and policy of London and wider
UK society through his ideas and expertise. He recognised the
emergence of Asia on a strategic level in the global economy in the
late 1990s and championed this process through the notion of the
'Asian century' as a giant step forward for humanity.
His relationaship with Mayor
Livingstone ended abruptly when Mr Singh publicly exposed the issues
of discrimination within the Mayor's Office. He announced his
intention to stand on 29th August 2008 with the strapline
"Freedom for All".
Atma Singh lives in London but
was born in a mud house in a village in Jalandhar District of Punjab
India in 1960. His parents lost six of their eleven children in
infancy due to terrible poverty. He arrived to the UK in 1967 as a
child. He went to Queens' College Cambridge University to study law
for one year. He failed his first year exams and, as a consequence,
he was forced to move University. Then he went to Newcastle
University to study politics. He got a BA Hons degree. He has a CNAA
Certificates in Education (further education) and an Institute for
Training and Development (now part of IPD) Certificate. He was
elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in1998.
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