Abid is Director, Diversity at Arts Council England, the national development agency for arts and culture leading the organisation's work on Equality, Inclusion and the Creative Case for Diversity. He is an alumnus of both the U.S. International Visitor Leadership Programme (IVLP) and Salzburg Global Seminar responding to themes of art and social change, migration, displaced artists and conflict transformation. Abid has led on the development of the Arts Council's strategic equality and diversity framework since 2014. He served on the strategy oversight group for the Arts Council supporting the development of its new 10 year strategy Let's Create. Abid has also led on the development of the organisation's Equality Objectives policy framework and its new Inclusivity and Relevance investment principle that will inform the organisation's work over the coming years. He has extensive experience of working with cultural institutions, academia, government and third sector agencies internationally across North America, Europe, Asia, South Africa and Australasia and is a contributing author to a number of academic texts and journals on equality, diversity and inclusion. He has recently completed an MBA degree at Aston University. Abid is a Fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar.