Oliur joined the Mayor’s Fund for London in April 2016. He started his career as a graduate intern for the Growth Boroughs Unit working on employment and skills programmes in the Development, Games time and Legacy phases of the Olympics.

He went on to became the Project Manager for Convergence, leading on the employment, skills and economic development theme for the sub-regional partnership, with an organising principle of giving East Londoners the same life chances as the rest of London.

Oliur has extensive experience of designing and managing employment and skills programmes, in addition to developing strategies and policies. He has developed an expertise of developing funding bids, most recently successfully bidding for £8m of European Funding for a programme to support people who are long term unemployed from East London, into work. Oliur later went on to manage the Mayor’s Fund for London’s Tech Up Nation apprenticeship programme.

Oliur lives in East London and is passionate about supporting Young Londoners to achieve their full potential, having himself benefitted from an employment programme at the start of his career.