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Hyder Gulam was born in Singapore and educated in Melbourne. He is a registered nurse, a qualified lawyer, an accredited mediator as well as a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in Australia. He has post graduate qualifications in business/management, law and nursing. He has served as an officer with the Royal Australian Air Force, both in Australia and overseas. He has published in areas such as trans-cultural nursing, health law, criminal law and military law. Hyder has also worked in indigenous health, paediatric nursing, aged care, as well as emergency and trauma. Prior to accepting a role back in Melbourne, Hyder worked in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for one of the world's biggest law firms. Hyder has practiced mainly in the areas of Commercial & Corporate, Defence Procurement and Islamic Finance. Hyder is now a Human Rights Lawyer, working across a range of areas including discrimination and disability. Hyder is President of the Islamic Council of Victoria, Director of MCCA Ltd, Honorary Solicitor to the Australian National Imams Council, member of the Australian Red Cross (International Humanitarian Law)(Vic), member of the Royal College of Nursing Australia (Vic), as well as co-founder of the Muslim Legal Network (http://www.muslimlegalnetwork.com) and the City Circle (2008 Revival): http://citycircle.weebly.com/index.html In 2010, Hyder was appointed to the Expert Panel to the Australian Government's Board of Taxation review of Islamic Banking & Finance. Hyder is also an Honorary Associate in the School of Law within the Faculty of Law and Management, La Trobe University. Hyder is recipient of the 2010 La Trobe University Young Alumni Award, as well as the Australian Defence Force Medal, and in 2011 was nominated in the Top 100 most influential, inspirational, provocative and creative Melbournians.

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