Guy Black, Baron Black of Brentwood

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Guy Black, Baron Black of Brentwood

Guy Vaughan Black, Baron Black of Brentwood (* 6. August 1964 in Chelmsford , Essex ) is a British politician ( Conservative Party ) and Life Peer . He has been Executive Director of the Telegraph Media Group since September 2005 .

life and career

Black was born the elder of twins. He grew up in Brentwood , Essex and attended the Brentwood School there . He studied at Peterhouse College at the University of Cambridge . He graduated there in 1985 with a Double First-Class Honors degree in history ; he had previously won the Sir Herbert Butterfield Prize for History.

His professional career includes activities in politics and the media. From 1985 to 1986 he worked as a consultant in the corporate banking division at Barclays Bank (BZW). His first political occupation was from 1986 to 1989 in the Conservative Research Department to Special Advisor (which he left Special Advisor ) of the Energy Minister ( Secretary of State for Energy ) John Wakeham to be who promoted the privatization of the electricity industry at this time. From 1988 to 1992 Black was Councilor of the Brentwood District Council . After the general election in 1992 , he worked in the civil service for four years. From 1992 to 1994 he was Finance Director ( Account Director ) at the lobby firm Westminster Strategy in London ; from 1994 to 1996 he was Associate Director of Lowe Bell Good Relations , a marketing and public relations firm. In 1996 he returned to John Wakeham as director of the Press Complaints Commission (PCC). During this time he worked for the tightening of the code of practice of the press after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997 and for the protection of the privacy of Princes William and Harry . During the passage of the Human Rights Act, he successfully fought for special protection for freedom of speech.

In December 2003 he became Director of Communications for the Conservative Party and press secretary to opposition leader Michael Howard . He returned to the media division following the 2005 general election and joined the Telegraph Media Group in September 2005 as Executive Director . In September 2009, he was Chairman ( Chairman ) of the Press Standards Board of Finance , which is responsible for the financing of the PCC and the monitoring of the self-regulatory system of the press body.

He has been Director ( Director ) of the Advertising Standards Board of Finance (ASBOF) which has a similar role in the founding of the Advertising Standards Authority played (ASA). Black since 2009, Chairman ( Chairman ) of the Commonwealth Press Union Media Trust , which for the preservation and expansion of press freedom within the Commonwealth uses. He has been a member of the Imperial War Museum's Trustee since 2007 and was appointed to the Council of the Royal College of Music in 2009 . In 2010 he became a member of The Guild of St Bride's, Fleet Street . Until his resignation in January 2009, he was a member of the Trustee of the Sir Edward Heath Charitable Foundation .

Membership in the House of Lords

Black was named Life Peer as Baron Black of Brentwood , of Brentwood in the County of Essex on July 9, 2010 . Its official introduction to the House of Lords took place on July 13, 2010 with the assistance of John Wakeham and Jonathan Marland, Baron Marland . Black made his inaugural address on July 21, 2010, on the role of older women in society and the particular problems caused by osteoporosis .

On the House of Lords website, he names media and culture, health, education , energy policy and animal welfare as topics of political interest . He lists the Commonwealth and Italy as states of interest .

Black is a member of the Association of Conservative Peers . In a speech in the House of Lords on 25 November 2010, he turned massively against the use of " success fees " (Conditional Fee Agreements) in legal cases that the protection of privacy and the offense of defamation concern. He said: "Currently, there is no worse threat to freedom of the press and the right to information than the unrestricted use of conditional fee agreements by plaintiffs' attorneys, aided by the toxic combination of 100% success fees and post-liability insurance."

Black is relatively regular on meeting days.

Other offices

When Mayor of London's Fund for Young Musicians he is a member of the Trusteeship Council ( trustee ). He is the Life Vice-President of the Northern Ireland Schools Debating Competition . He is the patron and patron of the Peterhouse Politics Society .

Honors

1997 became a Black Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts . He has also been a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations since 2007.

Private

Black married on February 11, 2006 at Islington Town Hall in a civil ceremony attended by numerous political and media representatives, his longtime partner, Mark Bolland , the former assistant private secretary (1997-2002) of Prince Charles . Since then he has lived with him in a registered civil partnership . Witnesses were Murdoch MacLennan (chief executive of the Telegraph Media Group) and Rebekah Brooks , then editor of the tabloid The Sun .

His private interests are music and making music, reading (mainly historical biographies), wine and traveling to Umbria .

Black is the first openly gay living peer of the Conservative Party . Black is also a political advocate for gay rights; For example, in 2011 with a campaign against homophobia at the summit of the heads of government of the Commonwealth countries (Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting) in Perth .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Lord Black of Brentwood  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Biography at Debretts (available online)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.debretts.com  
  2. ↑ Officially, Chelmsford , Essex is almost always given as the place of birth . Deviating from this, Black stated in his inaugural address in the House of Lords : "I was born and brought up in Brentwood in Essex.", See Lord Black of Brentwood (Conservative) wording of the inaugural address of July 21, 2010
  3. ↑ The Telegraph's new Baron Black Article in: The Guardian, May 29, 2010
  4. ↑ Where the press still listens to Prinzen in: DIE ZEIT of February 15, 2001
  5. ↑ Guy Black: in the eye of the hurricane ( Memento of the original from July 30, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article in the 2003 British Journalism Review  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bjr.org.uk
  6. ↑ 67. Guy Black Article in: The Guardian, July 12, 2004
  7. ↑ Directors ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ASBOF official website , accessed May 27, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.asbof.co.uk
  8. ↑ Lord Black of Brentwood ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Biography on the website of the CPU , accessed on May 27, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cpu.org.uk
  9. ^ Current Trustees Official website of the Imperial War Museum , accessed May 27, 2012
  10. ↑ Council Members 2011/2012 (PDF; 1.2 MB) Official website of the Royal College of Music , accessed on May 27, 2012
  11. ↑ see Lord Black of Brentwood (Conservative) wording of the inaugural address of July 21, 2010
  12. ↑ Debate Health and Safety: Common Sense Common Safety Excerpt from the minutes of the House of Lords meeting of November 25, 2010
  13. ↑ House of Lords: Members 'expenses Members' expenses on the House of Lords website , accessed May 26, 2012
  14. ^ A b First out gay Tory peer joins House of Lords in: Pink News of July 14, 2010
  15. ↑ Zim on agenda at Chogm ( Memento of the original from June 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: The Zimbabwean of October 28, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thezimbabwean.co.uk
personal data
SURNAME Black, Guy, Baron Black of Brentwood
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Black, Guy Vaughan, Baron Black of Brentwood (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician (Conservative Party)
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Chelmsford , Essex