Munira Mirza
chief executive, Civic Future

Munira Mirza is the chief executive of Civic Future, a charity that identifies and trains talented people to enter public life. Munira was the director of the No 10 Policy Unit between 2019-2022, and served previously as a deputy mayor for London. She studied English at Oxford University, earned a PhD in sociology at the University of Kent, and has worked in government, academia, business and the cultural sectors. She previously served on the boards of the Royal Opera House, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Royal College of Music and the West London Children’s Zone.

She is currently honorary professor at the Strategy and Security Institute at Exeter University and in June 2025, became chair of a new non-party political organisation called Fix Britain, which is producing a comprehensive blueprint to fix the root causes of Britain’s most serious problems. Munira has published several works, including Living Apart Together: British Muslims and the paradox of multiculturalism (Policy Exchange, 2007), and The Politics of Culture: the case for universalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

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