Ali Miraj

Ali Miraj is a financier, broadcaster, social entrepreneur and DJ. He presents weekly radio shows on LBC, the largest commercial talk radio station in the UK, and appears regularly on multiple media outlets including Sky News. He has written for all the major broadsheet newspapers. He was the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for the marginal seat of Watford at the 2005 General Election and prior to that he contested the 2001 General Election in Aberavon, South Wales. He served as a Councillor (London Borough of Hillingdon) from 1998-2002 having been elected at the age of 23. He was as an adviser to the Conservative Foreign Affairs Team from 2001-2003 and a Board Member of both the Conservative Party’s Policy Commissions on Quality of Life and International and National Security (2005-2007). In 2012, he founded the Contrarian Prize to recognise British public figures that demonstrate independence, courage and sacrifice www.contrarianprize.com He is a trained House music DJ and has p