Ram Gidoomal arrived in UK in 1967 as a refugee from Kenya and with his sheer determination and hard work became owner of six shops within six months of arrival. Ram studied at Imperial College, London where he earned an honours degree in physics.  He entered business, working first at Lloyds Bank International and later with a multinational company in Geneva. He ascended rapidly to senior positions and managed a large workforce and considerable budgets.

Ram Gidoomal is the only ethnic minority candidate to have been chosen as a candidate in the 2004 elections. In 1992 he stepped down as vice-chairman of a company worth some £130m and employing 7,000 people, announcing that he would be concentrating his time and wealth on charitable work and community business projects.

Ram is a successful entrepreneur and businessman, and author of several books including "The British and how to deal with them", "The U.K. Maharajahs" and "How would Jesus vote?" He is also active in community and environmental concerns, chairing the London Community Foundation and the London Sustainability Exchange, and as a non-executive board member of English Partnerships. Amongst many other interests, Ram also has had family links with Southall, and founded and chairs South Asian Concern, which enables Asian and other Christians to be more effective in leadership amongst the Asian communities.

Ram is on the European Advisory Board of NASDAQ quoted Syntel Inc., a board member of a local NHS Trust, the Covent Garden Market Authority, English Partnerships and London First Centre and the Companions of the Chartered Management Institute. He is chairman of the London Community Foundation and serves on the council of The Institute of Employment Studies.    

He is a governor of Kings College School, Wimbledon, on the Court and Council of Imperial College, London, on the Court of Luton University, a visiting professor in Entrepreneurship and Regeneration at Middlesex University and an honorary member of the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University.