Gordon Wasserman, Baron Wasserman
Gordon Joshua Wasserman, Baron Wasserman (* 26. July 1938 in Montreal ) is a British - Canadian business leaders , economists , professors and politicians of the Conservative Party , which as an independent consultant for the management of the public service worked and since 2011 a member of the House of Lords is.
Life
Degree and Government Official
After attending school, Wasserman completed a degree in economics at McGill University in Montreal and graduated in 1959 with a Bachelor of Arts. He then completed with the support of a Rhodes scholarship , a post-graduate studies at the University of Oxford and ended it with a Master of Arts (MA). He then took over a professor of economics at the University of Oxford.
In 1967 he joined the British Government, initially serving as Home Office economics advisor , before becoming Head of the Civil Service Unit for Deprived Urban Areas in 1973 . There he dealt with the problems in British inner cities until 1977.
In 1981 he became Assistant to a Parliamentary Undersecretary of State and Director of Social Policy in the Office of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher .
After that in 1983 he was Assistant to the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Home Office for questions of science and technology to the police before he was on leave in May 1995 for a year to the legal defense fund of the US American Association for the Advancement of colored people National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to work.
In addition, he was a board member of the SEARCH Group between 1994 and 2000.
Entrepreneur and upper house member
With many years of experience in information and security technology, he founded his own company The Gordon Wasserman Group, LLC and has since served as an internationally recognized advisor on management and technology to law enforcement agencies.
After serving as Special Advisor on Science and Technology to the President of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) from August 1996 , he became Special Advisor and Chief of Staff to the Philadelphia Police Department in October 1998 . In addition, he served as a law enforcement, correctional technology and policy evaluation advisor to the US Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice between 1996 and 2003 .
Since November 2000, he has been CEO of electronics company GE Ion Track, Inc , of which he has been a board member since May 2000. In June 2002, he became chairman of an international team of experts charged with reviewing the work of the National Institute of Justice's Office of Science & Technology (OS&T) to ensure that the OS&T was able to cope with the demands of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks .
Most recently, Wasserman, who returned to the SEARCH Group Board of Directors in July 2004, served as Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Center for Criminal Justice Science and Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology . In addition, he was between November 2004 and August 2006, board member of the Biotechnology -Unternehmens Orchid Cellmark Inc .
On January 11, 2011, he was raised to the nobility by a letters patent as a life peer with the title Baron Wasserman , of Pimlico in the City of Westminster . 13 January 2011 on its introduction (followed Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords .
As such, Lord Wasserman, who also works in the private sector as managing director of the Berlin- based food company Yes Please Foods GmbH , has been an advisor to the government of Prime Minister David Cameron for politics and criminal justice as well as a member of an advisory committee of the Home Office to examine the development of a new information technology in the police force by private companies.
Web links
- Entry on Parliament's homepage
- Entry in They Work For You (accessed on July 11, 2012)
- w.htm Cracroft's Peerage
- Entry (McGill Alumni, December 20, 2010)
- Entry ( Harvard University Law School )
- Biography on the Long Island University homepage
- Biography . In: Bloomberg Businessweek (accessed on July 11, 2012)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Systems integrators could take stake in police agency, says IT chief Gordon Wasserman . In: Computer Weekly of July 8, 2011
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wasserman, Gordon, Baron Wasserman |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wasserman, Gordon Joshua, Baron Wasserman (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British-Canadian politician, economist, university professor and manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montreal |