Appointed Governors
Viv Ahmun has founded and been the Co-Director of many businesses, civil society organisations and networks in recruitment, enterprise development, primary healthcare, tech-based coms, and impact investment. In his early years he grew a multimillion pound national charity from just £20,000 annually and was one the first Black men to sit on the London Probation Board, when it was the main board for the country.
Viv is a seasoned social policy veteran, corporate governance and leadership advisor. He is also a former Home Office and Mayoral strategic advisor to the London Mayors Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson.
In 2021, he was honoured by the African Achievers Awards, held at Kensington Palace, for services to enterprise (Africa-based start-ups and the popularisation of technology-based business solutions in East Africa). In service to his community during the Covid-19 lockdown, he and his colleagues established the Baobab Foundation which is a multimillion-pound philanthropy brand which raised a 27 million pound endowment and gives £3 million annually to Black micro organisations in the UK.
He currently spends an increasing amount of his time on brokering inward investment from North America and Europe into Africa, whilst working with others in the diaspora to build Africa’s infrastructure from the inside out through his recently co-founded Open Africa SPV. His social impact work remains at the centre of everything he does.
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Central Bedfordshire councillor since 2015
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Vice Chair of Central Bedfordshire Council's Audit Committee
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Parish councillor since 2009
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Governor at several schools
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Born, educated and lived majority of life in or on the border of Bedfordshire apart from a couple of years living in Whitechapel and some time living and working in Paris
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Day job is as IT Manager at the world’s largest costumier for film, tv & theatrical productions
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