Board of Directors

Fahim is a founding member of Khayaal and an accomplished arts leader, Creative Producer, and senior arts manager with over 20 years of experience leading arts organisations, teams, and projects across the UK. His career spans five diverse regions, including significant work in the London Borough of Hackney during the 1990s, where he played a key role in culture-led regeneration initiatives such as the Dalston and Hackney SRB City Challenge programmes.

He has managed and directed arts development services for both Watford and Luton Borough Councils, as well as the Culture Trust Luton. In these roles, he delivered year-round, artist-led programmes, audience development initiatives, events, and festivals—each designed to broaden community participation and support place-making and cultural regeneration.

Fahim is currently the Programming Manager for Arts Development at Richmond Council’s Arts Service, where he leads on the Richmond Arts & Ideas Festival—an ambitious new festival for London. Co-produced with more than 60 partners, the festival spans 17 days and features over 70 events and activities across multiple wards in the borough.

A long-standing advocate for equity in the arts, Fahim has consistently campaigned for greater recognition of the barriers faced by Black and Minority Ethnic communities, who remain among the least likely to engage with the arts or benefit from local and national arts funding and cultural resources.