Diljit Rana, Baron Rana

Dijit Singh Rana, Baron Rana, of Malone in the County of Antrim, MBE, JP ( born September 20, 1938 in Sangol, Punjab, India) is a native of India British entrepreneur and politician, who since 2004 as a life peer member of the House of Lords is.

Life

After his immigration from India Rana 1963 was first in England and then in 1966 in Northern Ireland and founded there the Andras House Ltd, a company for the development of land, houses and restaurants, and has since been its executive director. The mid-1980s he began beyond his further social and economic front, 1985 was the founder of the Indian Economic Forum and in 1986 was appointed as a Justice of the Peace. Between 1990 and 1994 he was a Director of Lagan College, and from 1991 to 1992 president of the Commerce and Industry Chamber of Belfast.

Rana, the 1996 Member of the Order of the British Empire was and with the Rana Charitable Trust founded his own charity, since 2002, Chairman of the charity organ Activision Thanksgiving Square Belfast and received in 1999 an honorary doctorate from the University of Ulster and in 2004 another of the Queen's University Belfast.

By Letters Patent of 16 June 2004 Rana was raised as a life peer with the title Baron Rana, of Malone in the County of Antrim in the peerage. Shortly thereafter, on June 30, 2004 he was Introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords. In the House of Lords he belongs to the group of so-called Cross Bencher.

Since 2004 he is Indian Honorary Consul in Northern Ireland and was at the same time between 2004 and 2005 President of the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Industry. After he was from 2004 to 2009 Executive Vice President, he serves since 2009 as president of the Global Organisation for People of Indian descent GOPIO (Global Organization for People of Indian Origin ) and was founded in 2007 by the Indian Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award for his contributions Indian interests recognized in the Diaspora.