David Triesman, Baron Triesman

David Triesman, Baron Triesman

David Maxim Triesman, Baron Triesman (born October 30, 1943 in London ) is a British Labor Party politician who , among other things, was chairman of the leading English football association The Football Association and has been a member of the House of Lords since 2004 .

Life

Degree, professional career and union official

Triesman, who comes from Belarusian - French Jewish parents, graduated from the University of Essex after attending the Stationers' Company's School , from which he was expelled in 1968 for participating in a protest against a scientist in the arms industry. He then continued his studies at King's College of the University of Cambridge on.

After joining the Labor Party as a youth in 1960, he became a member of the British Communist Party at that time , before rejoining the Labor Party in 1977.

For several years he worked as a lecturer at the London South Bank University (LSBU) and was also active as a trade unionist . He was also a member of the Home Office's Committee for Prison Education from 1980 to 1983 and a member of the Greater London Labor Authority between 1981 and 1986 . In 1984 he became a full-time official of the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE) and served as Chairman of the Burnham Teachers Committee between 1985 and 1986.

In 1993, Triesman moved to the Association of University Teachers (AUT) as General Secretary and held this position until 2001. In addition, he was a member of a commission of inquiry into higher education from 1998 to 1999 and a member of the Board of Directors of Ruskin College between 1999 and 2002 . He also served as a member of a working group for better regulations from 2000 to 2001 and a member of a Treasury Circle for Public Service Productivity from 2000 to 2002.

Labor Party Secretary General and House of Lords

In 2001 he succeeded Margaret McDonagh as Secretary General of the Labor Party and held this office until his replacement by Matt Carter in 2003.

On January 12, 2004, Triesman was raised to the British nobility as a life peer with the title Baron Triesman , of Tottenham in the London Borough of Haringey , and has been a member of the House of Lords ever since .

During his membership in the House of Lords, he was initially Parliamentary Director ( Whip ) of the Labor Group between 2004 and 2005 and at the same time spokesman for education, skills, trade, industry, transport and international development. At the same time he held the title of Lord in Waiting to her HM Household between June 2004 and May 2005 .

In May 2005 Lord Triesman was appointed Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , the Department of Foreign Affairs and Affairs of the Commonwealth of Nations . From June 2007 to January 2008 he was Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Innovation, Universities and Skills, where he was responsible for intellectual property and quality.

After leaving government, he followed Geoff Thompson in 2008 as chairman of The Football Association . He held this position until he was replaced by David Bernstein in 2010 and was also responsible in this position until 2010 for England's unsuccessful applications to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cup .

In 2010, after the Labor Party's defeat in the general election on May 6, 2010, Lord Triesman became the opposition spokesman for business, innovation and skills. Since 2011 he has been Labor Group spokesman in the House of Lords for Foreign Affairs and Affairs of the Commonwealth of Nations.

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on 6 July 2012)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed July 6, 2012)
• David Triesman at Hansard (English)