Simon Sheikh is the national director of the Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n political organisation GetUp!. The son of Michael Sheikh, an India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n-born industrial chemist and inventor, he attended Camdenville Public School, which was officially branded 'underprivileged', and later gained late entry to Fort Street High School

Fort Street High School

Fort Street High School is a co-educational, academically selective, public high school currently located at Petersham, an inner western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

. He later studied Economics at the University of New South Wales

University of New South Wales

The University of New South Wales , is a research-focused university based in Kensington, a suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

.

He was born in Sydney, and has ancestry from India, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand and Australia.

Sheikh represented Australia as the youth representative in Uganda for the 2007 Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting, and was also named the New South Wales Young Professional of the Year.

See also

• GetUp!