Rajnish Singh
Chairperson
President, Edinburgh Diwali
Rajnish Singh is an MBA with more than 25 years of professional experience in IT industry. A British citizen of Indian origin based in Edinburgh since 1999.
He has been active in Community engagements since 2002. He is one of the founder members of Edinburgh Diwali, a registered Scottish Charity, and currently its President since 2020. Also, one of the patrons of Scottish Indian Arts Forum where he was the President 2016–2020, and on the board of ELREC, Edinburgh Mela and Bihari Community of Scotland. In the past he served as Secretary of Edinburgh Hindu Mandir and Cultural Centre 2013–201
Sammy Alakil
Secretary
Yemeni Scottish Foundation
Susan Siegel
Treasurer
Glasgow Jewish Representative Council
Ephraim Borowski
Ephraim is the Director of the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities, which he was instrumental in establishing at the time of Devolution as the democratic representative umbrella body for the entire Jewish Community of Scotland.
Before his unfeasibly early retirement from Glasgow University, he was head of the Philosophy Department, employee representative on Court, and President of the Association of University Teachers. He also taught at Oxford and the Open University, where he sat on the Academic Board and Scottish Committee.
He is the immediate past Convener of BEMIS, and was a member of the Scottish Executive’s Race Equality Advisory Forum, the Scottish Committees of both the CRE and the EOC, and the Scottish Interfaith Council, and chairs Police Scotland’s National Independent Strategic Advisors Group. He has held many elected positions in the local and national Jewish Community, and is immediate past chair of the Regional Assembly of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, and remains a member of its Executive.
He was a ministerial appointee to the General Teaching Council for Scotland, and Convener of its Investigating Committee, is a Lay Member of the Employment Tribunal, and sat on the Conduct Committee of the Scottish Social Services Council. He is joint author of the Collins Dictionary of Mathematics and other reference books, was an SQA Consultant, Governor of Hutchesons’ Educational Trust, and President of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow (of which he is only the third Hon Member since Einstein!) Ephraim was awarded an MBE for services on behalf of the Jewish Community in Scotland.
Jani Lang
Jani Lang is a Hungarian/Roma musician and a resident of Scotland since 2005. He is a busy performing artist who earned his degree as a classical musician and after years of self study he became an expert of various traditional music styles. In recent years he toured in Europe, America and Asia with his band Dallahan and he is also a sought after music producer. He is a founding member of Ando Glaso, a Glasgow based charity organisation aiming to promote and nurture Roma culture and talent.
Trishna Singh
Sikh Sanjog
Meriem Timizar
International Women’s Group
Ewelina Chin
HSTAR Scotland
