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The
Rt Hon Lord Kinnock
President
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Neil Kinnock was born in Tredegar in 1942. His father was a
steel worker and former collier, his mother a nurse. He graduated from
University College Cardiff and became a tutor organiser for the Worker’s
Education Association in South Wales.
He was elected to the House of Commons as MP for Bedwellty (later Islywn) in
1970. He was elected to the Labour Party National Executive in1978 and
appointed Chief Education Spokesman of the Labour Party in 1979.
In 1983 he was elected Labour Party Leader and leader of HM Opposition. He
stepped down from the Party leadership in 1992 and in 1995 was appointed to
the European Commission. He was European Commissioner for Transport from
1995-1999 and, from 1999-2004, Vice-President of the Commission.
He was made a member of the House of Lords in 2005 as Lord Kinnock of
Bedwellty. He has been President of Cardiff University since 1998 and Chair
of the British Council since December 2004. |
The
Lord
Gregson of Stockport in Greater Manchester
Hon. Life President
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Appointed
to the Board of Fairey Engineering Ltd in 1966, Chairman 1978-1994.
Non-Exec. Director of British Steel Plc 1976-1994. Non-Exec. Director of
OSC Process Engineering Ltd, 1995. Non-Exec. Director Innvotec
Ltd, 1999. Non-Exec. Director of National Rivers Authority.
Chairman Audit Committee 1992-1995. Member of House of Lords' Select Committee on Science
& Technology -
1999. In 1980-81 Chaired the Select Committee Report into Hazardous Waste
Disposal. Member of House of Lords' European Community Committee's
Sub-Committee on Energy, Industry and Transport 1994-1997. Member of the
House of Lords' Select Committee on Sustainable Development 1994-1996.
Current Chairman of Compensation Scheme for Radiation Linked Diseases.
Chairman of Onyx Environmental Trust 1997-. President of Defence
Manufacturer's Assoc. 1984-. President of Environmental Industries Commission
1994- 1996. Chairman of Waste Management Industry Training and Advisory
Board 1985-1999. Chairman of Advisory Council at RMCS Shrivenham 1985 -
1999. Deputy Lieutenant of Greater Manchester. |
Sir
Sigmund Sternberg O.St.J.KCSG JP
Hon. Life President
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Sir Sigmund Sternberg is a businessman and life long
supporter of the Labour Party who has dedicated a great part of his life to
serving the Jewish community and the cause of dialogue and interfaith
relations across the globe.
A member of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and President of the
Reform Jewish community, he has served with distinction as sole Patron of
the International Council of Christians and Jews, co-founder of the Three
Faiths Forum and vice-president of the World Congress of Faiths.
His work for understanding and reconciliation between faith communities has
taken him to every continent and has brought him recognition from nineteen
countries as well as the Vatican.
He is also an active participant in the work of Rotary International, whose
cause he has furthered with fervour and dedication. |
The Lord
Haskel of Higher Broughton
Hon. Life President
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Lord Haskel was
a Founder Member of LFIG and served as its Secretary and Chairman nearly
two decades. He is now Vice-President of the Group.
He was made a Life Peer in October 1993 and his main activity currently is
his work at the House of Lords. Previous he built up his own national and
international textile business, The Perrotts Group Plc.
In 1994 he became an Opposition Whip, in November 1994 he was appointed
Front Bench spokesman on Trade & Industry and appointed a member of
the Select Committee on Science & Technology. In May 1997 he
became a member of the new Labour Government as a Government Spokesman on
Trade & Industry, a Government whip and a Lord in Waiting. He stood
aside in July 1999 and is now the Liaison Peer with the Department of
Trade & Industry and serves on several committees and subcommittees.,
such as the sub-committees looking at Science & Society and at
Complementary & Alternative Medicine. Also involved in
Parliamentary Groups dealing with Arts & Heritage, Pensions &
Financial Services, Manufacturing and IT.
Chair of Trustees, Smith Institute,
Deputy Chair, Institute for Jewish Policy Research. |
Rt Hon Margaret Beckett MP
Hon. Life President |
Biography coming soon |
Geraint
Davies MP
Vice President
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The LFIG Vice President lives and works in Swansea. Born in
1960, was educated in Wales and at Oxford University, was Marketing Manager
at Colgate Palmolive and is Director of travel company Pure Crete.
 | 1986-97 Councillor New Addington, Croydon |
| 1994-96 Chair of Housing for London Boroughs |
| 1996-97 Leader of Council |
| 1997 Elected MP |
| 1997-2003 Chair of PLP Environment Transport and the
Regions Committee and Chair of LFIG. Member of Public Accounts Committee |
| 2003-2005 PPS to Lord Chancellor & Secretary of State
for Constitutional Affairs and Vice President LFIG. |
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David Pitt-Watson
Vice President
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David Pitt-Watson is Chair of Hermes Equity Ownership
Services. Previously, David was Chief Executive, Hermes Focus Asset
Management and Corporate Focus Director, Hermes Investment Management Ltd (“HIML”).
He headed a team of over 50 responsible for shareholder engagement,
corporate governance and voting in all the 3,000 companies in which Hermes’
clients invest world-wide. David has worked with the Focus Funds since 1999,
and has led many of its programmes to turn around large public companies.
Prior to joining Hermes, David had a distinguished business career which
also encompassed politics and academia. Following an early career at 3i and
McKinsey & Co, David was co-founder and ultimately Managing Director of
Braxton Associates Limited, which became the strategic consulting arm of
Deloitte & Touche. In that role he had 17 years of experience of boardroom
decision-taking and corporate transformation.
He has worked with LFIG for 20 years as an advisor on issues of management
and business policies for Labour’s front bench and from 1997-1999 was the
Assistant General Secretary of the UK Labour Party.
A graduate of Oxford and Stanford universities, David was visiting professor
of strategic management at Cranfield School of Management (1990-1995). He
has inspired and assisted numerous public initiatives including The
Cooperative Commission, established by Tony Blair to revive the UK
Co-operative movement and the Literary Task Force which established the
blueprint for the successful transformation of literary success in UK
primary schools. |
Dr Peter Slowe
Vice-President
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Dr
Peter Slowe is Chair and Chief Executive of the country’s leading global
volunteering organisation, Projects Abroad, which he founded
in 1992. Previously, as an academic, Peter wrote numerous papers and
published the landmark Geography and Political Power. As a popular author,
he has written about the First and Second World Wars and an acclaimed
biography of Labour’s Manny Shinwell.
He was Secretary of the Labour Finance and Industry Group from 1990 to 1994
and Chair from 1994 to 1998. |
Sir
Peter Heap KCMG
Chairman
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Sir Peter
Heap is a former British diplomat whose last appointment was as Ambassador
to Brazil. Since then he has held a nunber of positions in the private
sector, advising major companies, and most recently was non-executive
chairman of a small oil company.
His other activities include chairing the Brazil Chamber of Commerce in the
UK and chairing a charitable trust. |
Stephen Gruneberg
Vice-Chairman
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Dr Stephen Gruneberg joined the LFIG in
the early 1990s and has been an active member ever since. He participated in
the LFIG Construction Industry Group and contributed a number of policy
papers. He is currently Chair of the LFIG Regeneration Group and has been a
member of the Executive of LFIG since 2005. He is also a Research Fellow at the
University of Reading and lives in central London.
Stephen is an industrial
economist specialising in the construction and property sectors and has
written and co-written numerous books, reports and papers. Stephen was born in Scotland
and is
a graduate of Edinburgh and University College London. |
Danny Bernstein
Vice-Chairman
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Danny Bernstein is a long serving member of the Labour Party
having been a local councillor and a Parliamentary candidate. He is a well
known figure in the aviation industry and is currently Chairman of The
British Air Transport Association and Non executive Chairman of Monarch
Airlines where he was the Managing Director from1991 to 2002.
Danny is also a Non executive director of NATS, the Watermark Group plc and
the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust. |
Paul Hendrick
Treasurer
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Paul was a founding member of
LFIG and before that a member of the Labour Economic Finance and Taxation
Association (LEFTA). He has been Treasurer since LFIG’s inception. He is a
Chartered Accountant with over 30 years experience in financial management,
treasury and corporate finance working with various major public companies
such as Akzo Nobel NV, Courtaulds plc and the British National Oil
Corporation. He is currently with Acordis, a major private equity backed
buyout of the chemical and fibres businesses of Akzo Nobel.
In keeping with
his strong interest in regeneration issues Paul has also had extensive board
level experience in the public sector including with Greater London
Enterprise Ltd, the regional economic development company owned by a
consortium of all the London local authorities, where for many years he has
been a non-executive Director. |
Jane Mackenzie
Honorary Secretary
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Selected to be on the National Parliamentary Panel as an Amicus endorsed
candidate, she will be seeking a constituency to represent in the next
general election. She plays an active role within her local Constituency
Labour Party of Shrewsbury and Atcham.
Having worked within the NHS for over 20 years as a Speech and Language
Therapist she now designs and delivers staff training seminars teaching
Communication skills.
She is currently researching a book about her grandfather who played an
important role in evacuating children from Nazi occupied Europe. |
John Adams
Executive Member
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John Adams, formerly a Bank of England economist and
ex-London Stock Exchange Regulatory Adviser, now occupies an editorial
position at a Financial Times publication (Investors Chronicle). John was a
Labour Parliamentary Candidate at the last three general elections (Worthing
West in 1997, Ashford in 2001 and Brentwood & Ongar in 2005) and has also
served as a Fabian Society executive committee member. Within LFIG, which he
joined in 1994, John is presently an executive committee member and, as an
active study group chair, has supported Labour ministers’ policy work in
banking regulation and, more recently, pensions – he chairs the Pensions
Study Group. John also co-authored an LFIG pamphlet in 1996 with Doug
Henderson MP exploring ways to tackle mass unemployment. Contact:
jadams@lfig.org |
Stephen Beer
Executive Member
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Biography coming shortly |
Jaffer Manek
Executive Member
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Jaffer Manek
(FCCA
FCEA)
was born in Uganda, third
generation Indian origin, to a family in bus
transport business. After schooling in Uganda, at
18 he started work life at a London audit
practice. He went to college in Sweden for a couple of years where his
parents had resettled. After returning to UK, he completed qualified as an
auditor. He naturalised as a British citizen. He joined a large practice
auditing at Lloyds of London, was seconded to a large audit practice in
Bermuda and then started his own audit practice in London. He also
ran refresher courses for accountants, created own accountancy software and
lectured in audit techniques. He now operates an international network of
accountancy practices by using the Internet technology. Speaking six languages
and familiarity of numerous cultures enable him to function
well in international business arena.
At LFIG he is Chair of Company Law Reform Study Group. Recent success
includes the increase in audit exemption threshold.
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Edward McCauley
Executive Member
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Edward (Ed) is the original founder of the LFIG Regeneration
Group and Managing Director of Diligentia Ltd, which evaluates building
performance in relation to the three facets of sustainability, environment,
social and economic.
Edward is an economics graduate of the University of
Stirling, and has a background in management consultancy advising public and
private sector organisations on Private Finance Initiative schemes. Prior to
joining Diligentia he worked for the Structured Finance division of Quintain
Estates & Development plc developing strategic property partnerships for
public sector initiatives such as the NHS Local Improvement Finance Trust,
DFES Building Schools for the Future, and English Partnerships London Wide
Initiative. |
Deva Ponnoosami
Executive Member |
Biography coming shortly |
David Smuts
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David has been a member of LFIG since 1993
and has been the Executive Secretary of the group since 2005. He has been a
member of the Labour Party since 1991 and has also been a Labour candidate
in the London local elections.
David's entrepreneurial ambitions began
at a young age of 21 when he set up Get Down Music Publishing. David is the
Treasurer for the Chipping Barnet Labour Party and is actively engaged in
linking up Labour with business on a local and national level. He also
serves as the Chair of LFIG’s Health Study Group having first hand
experience within the NHS as a psychotherapist in the Oxford region and more
recently as a Business Manager with the world’s leading healthcare company.
His many business interests include directorships of Consociato Ltd, a
property investment company, Hire Everything, an internet company, and
Plaster Alabaster Ltd, a UK manufacturing company. |
John Stanworth
Executive Member
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Professor John Stanworth has been an LFIG member for over 20 years. John was
born in Birmingham and went to Handsworth Technical School, along with his
life-long friend and now member of the House of Lords, Lord Jeff Rooker,
Northern Ireland Minister. John worked in manufacturing industry as a
Metallurgist before attending Aston University and eventually developing an
interest in Small and Medium-Sized businesses. He is currently Professor of
Enterprise Studies at the Westminster Business School, University of
Westminster (formerly Regent Street Polytechnic), As one-time
Director-General of the Small Business Research Trust, John is a national
authority on small firms and also enjoys an international reputation as an
authority on franchising. He is currently Director of the International
Franchise Research Centre. John is a prolific author and broadcaster. He
has made over 50 broadcasts on programmes such as `The Money Programme',
`Today', `Financial World Tonight', `You and Yours', `World This Weekend',
etc. He has briefed Labour politicians on small firms issues including Tony
Blair, Gordon Brown plus Small Firms Shadow Minister and Ministers. John
served as LFIG Hon. Sec from 2002-2005 when he was succeeded by David Smuts.
He now serves as an LFIG Executive Committee member with special
responsibilities for co-ordinating LFIG's Annual Labour Party Conference
special fringe event. |
Ian
Wallace
Executive Member
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Ian Wallace has been a member of LFIG for
18 years, serving on many study groups covering diverse yet linked subjects.
This suits his generalist view to problem solving.
He has been developing a waterborne
transport technology/system for the past several years. The Smart Barge
Technology takes inner city waterborne bulk cargo & waste recyclates
transportation into the 21st century. |
Nicholas Waloff
Executive Member
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Nicholas Waloff is Vice Chair of the LFIG Regeneration Group
and has been an LFIG member since 1997.
A graduate of Cambridge and Newcastle Upon Tyne
Universities, he currently runs his own company. Waloff Associates Ltd
provides regeneration funding and feasibility advisory services, public
affairs and financial communications services. Previous job positions
included the Private Finance Section of The Housing Corporation, working for
the Local Government Management Board, and in public affairs in Canada.
He is also a member of the Investment Property Forum, the
Royal Society of Arts and the Institute of Field Archaeologists. |
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