Milan Shah
Council Member, Virani Food Products Ltd.
Milan has been a director of Virani Food Products Limited since 1993 and was last a Gafta Council member from 2009-2012. He has been a Gafta Qualified Arbitrator since 2004 sitting at both 1st Tier and Appeal Board. He has represented Gafta externally, such as on the FAO Steering Committee for the UN International Year of Pulses 2016 and at the International Organisation of Spice Trade Associations. From 2005 to 2011, he was a director of the Comite Européen de Liaison des Commerce Agro-Alimentaires in Brussels.
Milan’s professional qualifications are in governance, as a Chartered Director, with the Institute of Directors, and arbitration with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He has experience of chairing various non-profit organisations, including a university, a chamber of commerce, another global commodity trade association and a membership-based charity and hopes to apply these experiences for the benefit of Gafta.