Usha Prashar, Baroness Prashar is a British politician and a crossbench member of the House of Lords. Since the 1970s, she has served as a director or chair of a variety of public and private sector o
Official portrait, 2025
De Montfort University
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De Montfort University Leicester is a public university in Leicester, England. The university traces its origins to the Leicester School of Art, founded in 1870, and gained university status in 1992 u
Usha Prashar, Baroness Prashar
…of Cumberland Lodge, an educational charity initiating fresh debate on the burning questions facing society. Baroness Prashar became a governor of De Montfort University in 1996, and became its chancellor in 2001. She was chair of the National Literacy Trust from 2001 to 2005. She was appointed a trustee of the BBC World…
A statue of Simon de Montfort on the Haymarket Memorial Clock Tower in Leicester
The Campus Centre Building
The Clephan building, home to the former Faculty of Humanities
Magazine Square, with the Hugh Aston Building and the medieval Magazine Gateway