He has experience in public sector leadership and governance. 

 

In the past Saghir has served as a Disability Rights Commissioner. He was Committee Member of Equality and Human Rights Commission.  He was Member of Prime Ministers’s Strategy Unit Expert Panel on Independent Living. Saghir was Member of Equality 2025 advising Ministers and Senior Government Officials on public policy in Whitehall.  He has served as a Non–Executive Director of the Rotherham NHS Hospital, a Lay Advisor to the National Police Improvement Agency and Expert Member of the Youth Citizen Commission.

He was member of Lord Chancellor’s Consultative Committee. He served as Independent Governor at Westminster Foundation for Democracy appointed by Foreign Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. 

 

He has been Patron of Include Me Too, a national organisation that works with children and families. In 2006 Saghir was awarded an OBE for public service.