A NORTHWOOD woman has received an MBE for services to the Asian business community.
Nina Amin, below , tax partner and head of Asian markets at KPMG, is involved in advising Chinese and Indian companies wishing to set up in the UK, and heads up the firm’s Asian business programme, working with foreign businesses which make a huge contribution to the UK’s economy.
Mrs Amin is a chartered accountant with more than 25 years of corporate tax experience and has worked at KPMG for more than 16 years.
She has won a number of awards including the 2008 Professional of the Year and the 2009 Asian Who’s Who Leadership award, and is a board member of KPMG’s advisory council and a visiting lecturer at Bedfordshire University.

A MAN who has dedicated more than 50 years volunteering for St John Ambulance has been awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.
Paul Herbage has had a week to remember, after being honoured for voluntary service and turning 60 today (Wednesday).
The former NHS health director, from West End Road, Ruislip, has been with St John Ambulance for 52 years, and his first outing as a cadet, was to provide medical cover at Sir Winston Churchill's funeral.
Since then, he has been at every state event, including the Queen's Diamond Jubilee last year.
Mr Herbage said: “I’m thrilled because it was not long ago since I was made Commander for London with St John. I am humbled to think that people think so highly of me to give me such prestigious things.
“I look at it as an honour for the volunteers in St John Ambulance as well as for me.”
The brigade is a family affair for Mr Herbage. He met his wife Rosemary at a St John Ambulance conference.
“Volunteering is very much in the family,” Mr Herbage said. “My wife is youth manager for west London, my daughter and my son were cadets when they were younger, my son is still a member and my daughter is now a doctor.”
Mr Herbage worked for the NHS for more than 30 years, including as health service manager at Mount Vernon Hospital in Rickmansworth Road, Northwood in the 1980s.
Before being made Commander, he was deputy commissioner and before that area commissioner for north-west London.
He has come a long way since his days as a cadet, but Mr Herbage said he always knew he wanted to help save lives.
“I joined because I thought I might go into the health sector and I did. I think the best part of being a St John Ambulance volunteer is having the skills to be able to save a life, and I have had to use my first aid skills to help people in a number of situations, both as a volunteer and elsewhere.”

A RUISLIP man has been awarded an OBE in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours list for services to Social Policy and to the community in West London.
Kwame Akuffo is a former member of the Social Security Advisory Committee and sits as a Justice of the Peace. He is currently a senior lecturer in law at Ealing Law School at the University of West London.
His research interests include international human rights, international public law, equity and trusts as well as community legal advice.
The Gazette was unable to contact him before we went to press.


ROYAL Mail's Parminder Kaur was awarded an MBE in recognition of her setting up an adult education centre at the sorting office where she works.
Mrs Kaur, a union learning representative for the Communication Workers Union (CWU), has been running IT classes at the Heathrow Worldwide Distribution Centre (HWDC), in Langley, for the past six years. She has worked there for nearly ten years, and had no background in adult learning.
After chasing grants to buy new equipment and persuading her employers of the merit of a dedicated on-site learning centre after years of running the operation out of spare rooms, one was formally opened in 2011.
Mrs Kaur, who lives in Kingston Avenue, West Drayton, said: "I couldn't believe it when I heard I was being honoured.
"I find it very rewarding. It started because I am always studying and doing new courses, and people would ask for my help. I thought that they should learn properly."
Around a quarter of the 2,000 employees benefit from the extra-curricular classes, which run in round-the-clock shifts, and tutors from West Thames College have been recruited to provide the best teaching.
The 52-year-old also does charity work with the union charity, CWL Humanitarian Aid, and recently travelled to Bulgaria to deliver equipment for schools and funds.