to the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India.|alt=|left Born in
London in 1980, Singh has worked as a family law
barrister since 2006. He made the decision to join the legal profession after he saw an aunt to whom he was close go through a traumatic divorce when he was eight. He is the former chair for the Faiths Forum for London, an interfaith organisation based in London representing the interests of the nine major faith traditions. He is chairperson for
City Sikhs, a charity which represents the interests of progressive Sikhs. In 2016 he also became an associate of St Paul's Institute. He is the main Sikh contributor to the
Thought for the Day segment on
BBC Radio 4's
Today programme. In 2017, Singh was instrumental in launching the Grand Trunk Project in partnership with
DCLG to mark the 70-year anniversary of the independence of India, creation of Pakistan, and the partition of Punjab and Bengal with the aim of bringing the diverse communities of South Asia together. The project was named after the
Grand Trunk Road which has connected Bangladesh, India and Pakistan for over 2,000 years. Singh is the founder of
South Asian Heritage Month in the UK, a national awareness month which aims to celebrate British South Asian culture and identity. He was co-chair of the Moral and Ethical Advisory Group, which provided independent advice to the UK government on moral, ethical and faith considerations on health and social care related issues from 2019 to 2022 and was active throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. In February 2021, he was appointed to the
Mayor of London's
Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm. Singh is also a trustee of the
Kaleidoscope Trust, a nonprofit organisation that campaigns for the human rights of LGBT+ people around the world. Its mission is to help create a world where LGBT+ people are free, safe and equal everywhere. == Honours, awards and recognition ==