Hanzala Malik
Hanzala Shaheed Malik is a Scottish Labour Party politician. He was a Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Glasgow region from 2011 until 2016.Biography
Hanzala Malik was born in Glasgow and gained a BSc degree in Computing with Business Administration from the University of Paisley. Prior to working in politics, he worked in both the private and public sector including serving as a police special constable and member of the Territorial Army.
Malik was a Glasgow City Councillor for the one-member ward of Hillhead from 1995 to 2007, then as one of four in the larger multi-member of the same name from 2007 to 2012. In his role as a councillor, Malik was a member of council committees which included Education, Development and Regeneration, Finance, Housing, Licensing, Policy and Resources.
Malik was elected as a Labour MSP for the Glasgow region in the 2011 Scottish Parliament election. After standing down at the election in May 2016, he was re-elected as a Glasgow City councillor, again for Hillhead, in May 2017.
Malik is mixed-race; his father was born in Pakistan and his mother was born in Scotland. He has been married for over thirty years and has two children and two grandchildren.
