Hello I'm Georgie Corridge Cole, Sherlock's founder and CEO and welcome to today's in

conversation with podcast. I am just delighted to be joined by Roseman Madhavji, one of the

by the most loved taste makers, entrepreneurs, influences,

presenters, ambassadors to several amazing causes.

You're really like the fairy godmother of the luxury industry in the release on you.

Well first of all, welcome to Dubai. Thank you and thank you so much for having me. I feel like when you say that

introduction it just is a reflection about how old I am or how much experience I'm bringing because I think

you know I've been very lucky to work in different sectors and and I think that comes down to experience

We're very lucky to be sitting here talking to you today. I'd love to start with you talking us through your incredible career.

You've really done some amazing things.

You're involved in so many amazing causes you are really the

godmother of luxury but can you tell us a bit about your early life and

upbringing and what that was like. And your heritage.

And my family is from East Africa, where Indian origin.

They had to leave East Africa due to, you know, back then we had Idi Amin as a dictator and he told all the South Asians to leave.

At that point my dad was finishing his masters and just started working in the UK. My mom and my sister, my sister was three at that time and you know they lived in joint family households and so you know my dad was trying to build this great life for my family and so all of this happened in the early 70s and so from the UK they all ended up from like East Africa they all ended up going to Canada My dad left the UK and ended up going to Canada. My dad left the UK and ended up joining them in Canada as

well and you know it was actually the start of really

examples of people that work so hard and actually having entrepreneurs as role models.

And honestly, I never really understood until I turned 40 and I actually I was given this incredible opportunity to speak at the House of Lords at Parliament in London and they asked me to write a five minute speech on my history and you know and in my background and

and it was actually this great point of reflection because I was trying to understand how did I become the way I am or how is my thinking so particular and I

Realize that it was because I saw my mom and dad literally come with two suitcases and a three-year-old child which is my sister and starting from

scratch and education and all of that stuff was like I mean to really start and

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