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Wendi Momen
Wendi Momen holds a BSc in Economics and a Ph.D in International Relations, both from the London School of Economics, where she is a Governor. She is a book editor working primarily for George Ronald, Publisher, and is the author of 12 published books. She teaches courses on marriage and social issues at the Wilmette Institute and is Adjunct Professor at the United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, USA. She is a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of the United Kingdom and a cluster coordinator for the Ruhi training institute.
A social activist, she focuses on a cluster of issues that promote social justice: business ethics, the advancement of women, poverty eradication, health, criminal justice, interfaith harmony, housing and the environment.
Dr Momen has been a magistrate in the criminal court since 1982 and a lay family judge since 1984; she is currently vice chair of the Family Panel. She is cofounder and chair of ebbf (Ethical Business Building the Future) and board member of the International Environment Forum, both Bahá’í-inspired organizations. She is a Trustee of the National Alliance of Women’s Organizations, Widows’ Rights International, the Ward and Brown Foundation, the Ashworth Charitable Trust, the Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation and the Bedford Council of Faiths. She has been mentioned in editions of Who’s Who of Women since 1997.
She was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in June 2014 for ‘services to the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and to the community in Bedfordshire’.
She has been married to Moojan Momen since 1971 and is a mother of two and a grandmother of two.