Distinguished friends
Maria Adebowale-Schwarte
Sukhpal Singh Ahluwalia
Rajesh Agrawal
Riz Ahmed
Sughra Ahmed
Keith Ajegbo
Claire Alexander
Kitty Arie
Julian Baggini
Zelda Baveystock
Haidee Bell
Richard Beswick
Dinesh Bhugra
Karan Bilimoria
Geoffrey Bindman
Karen Blackett
Nicholas Blake
Ian Blatchford
David Blunkett
Hina Bokhari
Mihir Bose
Alain de Botton
John Bowers
Stephen Briganti
Des Browne
Mukti Jain Campion
Paul Canoville
Gus Casely-Hayford
Michael Cashman
Saimo Chahal
Reeta Chakrabarti
Shami Chakrabarti
Stephen Claypole
Robin Cohen
Linda Colley
David Crystal
Angélica Dass
Prakash Daswani
Sandie Dawe
Navnit Dholakia
Sherry Dobbin
Ibrahim Dogus
Lloyd Dorfman
Alf Dubs
John Dyson
Damien Egan
Graeme Farrow
Shreela Flather
Daniel Franklin
Edie Friedman
Manjit Singh Gill
Teresa Graham
Ann Grant
Susie Harries
Naomie Harris
James Hathaway
David Hencke
Sophie Herxheimer
Afua Hirsch
Michael Howard
Clive Jacobs
Kevin Jennings
Adrian Johns
Shobu Kapoor
Malik Karim
Jackie Kay
Ayub Khan-Din
Francesca Klug
Tony Kushner
Kwasi Kwarteng
Kwame Kwei-Armah
David Kynaston
Brian Lambkin
Mark Lewisohn
Joanna Lumley
Michael Mansfield
Sue McAlpine
Neil Mendoza
Nick Merriman
Abigail Morris
Hugh Muir
Tessa Murdoch
Sandy Nairne
Bushra Nasir
Susheila Nasta
Eithne Nightingale
John O’Farrell
Kenneth Olisa
Kunle Olulode
Julia Onslow-Cole
John Orna-Ornstein
Herman Ouseley
Sameer Pabari
Ruth Padel
Panikos Panayi
Bhikhu Parekh
Nikesh Patel
David Pearl
Caryl Phillips
Mike Phillips
Trevor Phillips
Sunand Prasad
Kavita Puri
Charles Rix
Trevor Robinson
Aubrey Rose
Michael Rosen
Cathy Ross
Salman Rushdie
Jill Rutter
Philippe Sands
Sathnam Sanghera
Konrad Schiemann
Richard Scott
Stephen Sedley
Maggie Semple
Babita Sharma
Nikesh Shukla
Jon Snow
Sonia Solicari
Robert Soning
David Spence
Danny Sriskandarajah
Stelio Stefanou
Dick Taverne
Jane Thompson
Robert Tombs
Rumi Verjee
Patrick Vernon
Edmund de Waal
Iqbal Wahhab
Yasmin Waljee
David Warren
Iain Watson
Debbie Weekes-Bernard
Henning Wehn
Nat Wei
Janet Whitaker
Gary Younge
The concept of a Migration Museum is truly compelling and critical to framing this complex and emotive debate.
Malik Karim
Malik Karim is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Fenchurch Advisory Partners, a leading corporate finance and M&A advisory business specialising in financial services. He is a rare example of a British Muslim who has combined his professional and entrepreneurial skills to successfully establish a world class investment banking business.
Malik’s family arrived in the UK in 1972 as refugees from Uganda and eventually settled in Leicester where he grew up on a council estate and attended a state secondary modern. He is a prize winning graduate from the University of Manchester who started his City career with Arthur Andersen and qualified as a Chartered Accountant. In 1990, he joined merchant bank Kleinwort Benson in the Corporate Finance department and was promoted to Director in 1997. He was recruited by Credit Suisse/DLJ in 1997 and was promoted to Managing Director prior to establishing Fenchurch in 2003.
Fenchurch has won several important industry awards including “Financial Services Adviser of the Year”, “Independent Corporate Finance House of the Year” and “Asset Management Deal of the Year”. Fenchurch is consistently ranked first by volume of transactions and third by value of transactions by Mergermarket. In recognition of Malik’s status as one of the most accomplished practitioners in his area of expertise, EY appointed him to a critical role as its Investment Banking Expert as part of its defence team when it was unsuccessfully sued by the Board of Equitable Life for £4billion.
In March 2018, Fenchurch formed a strategic partnership with Natixis, the international corporate and investment banking arm of BPCE, France’s second largest banking group. BPCE/Natixis is a long term shareholder in Fenchurch enabling the firm to accelerate its growth and offering enhanced capabilities to the increasingly complex and international needs of its clients. In 2023 Fenchurch established a US operation based in New York.
In June 2021, Malik was appointed by the Prime Minister as Treasurer of the Conservative Party and to the Party Board. He served three Prime Ministers until November 2022.
Malik met his wife Azmina at an airport queuing for a flight to Karachi and is married with two children. The family support several charities involved in promoting cultural cohesion and integration including Mosaic, founded by HRH King Charles where he was a Founder Donor and Board Member. He also Chaired a project to set up a hate crime reporting unit prior to folding it into Faith Matters which he continues to support. He ran the London Marathon (very slowly) in 2008, raising over £100,000 for Great Ormond Street Hospital, Chance to Shine (a charity promoting cricket in state schools) and the Aga Khan Foundation. He is a competitive golfer and recently won a Pro-Am with partner Charlie Hull, the top-ranked ladies player in England. He also enjoys watching cricket and football.