Monawar is an experienced entrepreneur and social innovator. He is Imam at Eton College and founded The Oxford Foundation, a charity that promotes religious and racial harmony through (mainly) educational and arts-based programmes. He has devised, pioneered and successfully piloted a unique educational programme confronting violent extremist ideology, aspects of which have been published and the programme has also been utilised to train religious education teachers in the UK.
Monawar sits on a number of advisory boards including the Department for Communities & Local Government Review of Muslim Faith Leader Training; the National Association of Teachers of Religious Education and the Religious Education Council Resilience Advisory Board. In addition, he is a Deputy Lieutenant (DL) of Oxfordshire.
