In 2012, Bashir founded Peek, a marketplace for travellers and locals to book activities in holiday destinations. She then worked at Gilt Groupe, and was part of the founding team at Art.sy in New York. Business career īashir worked in private equity at the Blackstone Group and in investment banking at Goldman Sachs in London.
In 2004, Bashir met Boris Johnson (himself a former President of the Union), and in October Johnson visited Oxford to speak at a debate entitled 'This House has No Confidence in Her Majesty's Government'.Īfter Oxford University, Bashir was a Fulbright Scholar at the Harvard Business School where she obtained an MBA.
During her tenure as president, Bashir's guest speakers included Senator John McCain, Michael Heseltine, Norman Lamont, Kenneth Clarke, John Redwood, David Trimble, Tom Ford, Hans Blix, and José María Aznar. When Bashir assumed the presidency of the Oxford Union in Michaelmas Term 2004 she became only the second Muslim to hold the position after former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. The Guardian commented that "Frivolous complaints have become the raison d'être of the Oxford Union", and subsequently the electoral rules of the Union were changed, so that others would not fall foul of the same problem. The tribunal found Forsyth guilty of electoral malpractice.
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Friends of Bashir commented that the opposition to her was really "because of the colour of her skin and because she is a Muslim". However, she subsequently had to face a tribunal, accused of irregular canvassing in the shape of courting votes in her college on polling day. While at Oxford, Bashir beat James Forsyth in the election for President of the Oxford Union debating society in March 2004. īashir attended New College at the University of Oxford to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Bashir was born and grew up in Skipton and attended Skipton Girls' High School in North Yorkshire.
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