Dr Mohammed Bechari is a leading figure in the landscape of European Islam. He heads a variety of organizations that seek to better represent French and European Muslims in the wider society as well as working to empower their own communities. He is the Secretary General of the UAE-based World Muslim Communities Council, and President of the French National Federation of Muslims, one of the leading entities organising Islam in France. He is also the Secretary General of the Islamic European Conference, a Europe-wide umbrella organization that seeks to be a single entity representing European Muslims at the European level. Bechari is the founder of the Avicenna Institute in Lille and member of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID) in Vienna.