Ranjit trained as a physicist, is an experienced community action worker and has served on a number of national public bodies since the late 1980s. He has been a member of the Independent Broadcasting Authority and of the Radio Authority; a deputy Chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality; Chairman of the Refugee Employment Training and Education Forum; member of the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct; member of the Home Secretary's Race Equality Advisory Panel; and a governor of the BBC with special responsibility for the English regions.
He is currently a senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham in the Community and Youth Studies department; Chairman of the Heart of Birmingham Teaching Primary Care Trust; a trustee of the National Gallery and of the Baring Foundation; Chairman of sampad, a South Asian Arts organisation; and a governor of a Birmingham primary school.
