The hunt, lasting 268 days, is over. The BBC has appointed a new HR supremo.
Uzair Qadeer was born in Lahore; at one point his parents sent him to a Catholic school. (I can't track down his exact age, but the Boston Business Journal selected him as one of their "40 under 40" last year). The family emigrated to the suburbs of Philadelphia, and Uzair began a long relationship with Penn State University, with bachelor’s degrees in both industrial engineering and in liberal arts, with minors in business, product realization, and history. He later returned to Penn State for his master's degree from the Smeal College of Business.
He founded an International Awareness Club, a group of students from dozens of countries who came together and filmed news segments on global issues. He was also elected student government president and helped organize the first Diversity Summit at Penn State.
Now describing himself as a lifelong HR professional, he started out in the world of work with Johnson & Johnson, then interned with Microsoft, before joining pharmaceutical company Bristol Myers Squibb, in the USA and Italy. HR consulting with Deloitte followed, then two years with another pharma company, Alexion, before his current gig with Carbon Health in San Francisco.
American Health Leader magazine, October 21
He may not be familiar with Alan Partridge; it's for others to make the comparison. “People in HR are often skating to the hockey puck, and by the time they get there, it’s gone... It is our job as HR leaders to design the organizations of tomorrow and incubate skills of the future. To do so, we have to build a strong futurist orientation and serve as business leaders with an HR focus, not the other way around”
At HR Conferences in the States, he's billed as a "Visionary" and a "Futurist". In 2020, he trademarked "Ten Dials of Diversity" in a short paper.
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