Denis Tunnicliffe, Baron Tunnicliffe

Denis Tunnicliffe, Baron Tunnicliffe

Denis Tunnicliffe Tunnicliffe Baron, CBE (* 17th January 1943 ) is a British pilot , business leaders and politicians of the Labor Party and since 2004 a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Degree, pilot and local politician

After attending the Henry Cavendish School in Derby , Tunnicliffe began studying mathematics at University College London (UCL), graduating in 1965 with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc. Mathematics). He was then the College of Air Training in Hamble-le-Rice trained as a pilot and was subsequently first co-pilot in the airline British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) and since 1972 a pilot with British Airways , where he worked until the 1986th Between 1966 and 1972 he was a member of the British Airline Pilots' Association .

Besides Tunnicliffe began in the early 1970s his political career in local politics and was initially 1972 to 1975 member of the Council of the Royal Borough of New Windsor and at the same time from 1974 to 1978 member of the Council of the County of Berkshire . He later served on the Borough Bracknell Forest Council from 1983 to 1987 and also chaired the council between 1985 and 1987.

Economic manager and member of the House of Lords

After leaving British Airways in 1986, he became a manager in the private sector , initially as head of the aviation division of the International Leisure Group . He was then in 1988 Managing Director of London Underground , whose CEO he was between 1998 and 2000. At the same time he was Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of London Regional Transport (LRT) from 1998 to 2000 and later, between 2002 and 2004, Chairman of the Board of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA).

For his services he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993.

On June 2, 2004, Tunnicliffe, who has been Chairman of the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) since 2003, was raised to the nobility as a life peer with the title Baron Tunnicliffe, of Bracknell in the Royal County of Berkshire and has been a member of the House ever since of Lords .

During his membership in the House of Lords, between 2008 and 2010 he was Parliamentary Managing Director of the Government Group in the House of Lords ( Government Whip ) and at the same time first spokesman for international development and then from 2009 to 2010 for work and pensions.

After the Labor Party's defeat in the general election on May 6, 2010 , he became Deputy Chief Whip of the Labor Group and was also the opposition spokesman for defense from 2010 to 2011 . Since 2012, Lord Tunnicliffe has been the opposition Labor group's spokesman for business, innovation and skills.

Lord Tunnicliffe is also a trustee of Homerton College at the University of Cambridge and a board member of the Royal Holloway at the University of London .

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on 7 July 2012)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed July 7, 2012)
• Denis Tunnicliffe at Hansard (English)