Diana Warwick, Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe
Diana Mary Warwick, Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (* 16th July 1945 ) is a British trade union functionary and politician of the Labor Party , and since 1999 a member of the House of Lords .
Life
Diana Warwick in 1983 successor to Laurie Sapper as general secretary of the trade union of university lecturers ( Association of University Teachers ) and this function held for ten years until it was replaced by David Triesman 1993. In addition to that she was involved at this time in numerous other committees and Institutions and was a board member of the British Council between 1985 and 1995, a member of the Employment Appeal Tribunal from 1987 to 1999 and a member of the board and council of the Industrial Society between 1987 and 1997 , renamed The Work Foundation in 2002 .
In addition, she was a member of the Commonwealth Institute between 1988 and 1995 and then a member of the Nolan Neil Committee on Standards in Public Life from 1994 to 1999. Diana Warwick was also a member of the Technology Foresight Steering Group of the Office of Science and Technology (OST) from 1997 to 2000 .
On July 10, 1999, she was raised to the nobility by a letters patent as a Life Peeress with the title Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe , of Undercliffe in the County of West Yorkshire . On 15 July 1999 introducing (followed Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords . As such, it has also been a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union , the Parliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Nations and the British -US Parliamentary Group since 1999 .
Furthermore, Baroness Warwick is involved in numerous societies and institutions and is chairwoman of the Human Tissue Authority , the Modern Records Center of the University of Warwick and chairwoman of the trustees of the International Students House (ISH) in London . She is also a board member of the Pensions Protection Agency , a member of the University College London (UCL) council and a member of the Fulbright Program Commission .
Web links
- Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on 10 July 2012)
- Diana Warwick at Hansard (English)
- Entry in They Work For You (accessed July 10, 2012)
- w.htm Cracroft's Peerage
Individual evidence
- ^ Introduction of the Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe . In: Hansard (July 15, 1999)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Warwick, Diana, Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Warwick, Diana Mary, Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British politician and union official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1945 |