The Iqbal Academy (UK) was set up in 1971 by Mr. Saeed Hassan Butt. Its present Chairman is Professor Saeed A. Durrani, for many years a distinguished Professor of Nuclear Physics at Birmingham University, [[UK)], who has held the post since 1987.
Its main aim is to disseminate the message of the Poet-Philosopher of the East, Allamah Dr. Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938).