Pakistani student elected President in Oxford’s prestigious Trinity College

LONDON: University of Oxford student from Karachi Raza Nazar has been elected President of the graduate community (MCR) of Oxford’s prestigious Trinity College, making history as the first Pakistani student to do so.

Raza hails from Karachi and studied at Karachi Grammar School and the United World College (UWC) in Singapore where his father Yousuf Nazar, an economist who often appears on Geo News on economy. He graduated in law from the London School of Economics (LSE), where he served as President of the LSE Law Society. While at LSE, Raza also co-founded the LSE Future of Pakistan conference, an annual forum that brings together students, experts and ministers. He was shortlisted in the Top 5 Future Lawyers (One’s To Watch) by Bright Network and went on to train as a lawyer at magic circle law firm, Slaughter and May.

While at Oxford, Raza read for the Bachelor of Civil Laws (BCL), which is described by the University of Oxford to be “the most highly regarded taught masters-level qualification in the Common Law world”. He is one of the few Pakistanis to have completed the BCL, along with former prime minister Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy and former president Wasim Sajjad.

In his BCL, Raza came second in the year for Jurisprudence and Political Theory. Raza is the recipient of three competitive scholarships: 3 Verulam Buildings Chambers Scholarship, an Oxford Pakistan Programme (OPP) Scholar and the Jeffrey Abbott Scholarship.