Janet Whitaker, Baroness Whitaker

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Janet Whitaker, Baroness Whitaker

Janet Alison Whitaker, Baroness Whitaker (born February 20, 1936 ) is a British Labor Party politician who has been a member of the House of Lords since 1999 .

Life

Janet Whitaker was a Justice of the Peace between 1985 and 2006 and also a member of the Employment Tribunal from 1995 to 2000 . In addition, she was Vice-Chair and Chair of the Racial Equality Council of the London Borough of Camden from 1996 to 1999 and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Health Service (NHS) Trust for the Tavistock Clinic and Portman Clinic from 1997 to 2001 . After all, she was a member of the Examination Board for Immigration Complaints between 1998 and 1999 and also chairwoman of the Working Men's College for men and women founded by Frederick Denison Maurice in 1854 from 1998 to 2001 .

On August 5, 1999, she was raised to the nobility by a letters patent as a Life Peeress with the title Baroness Whitaker , of Beeston in the County of Nottinghamshire . On November 3, 1999, she was introduced as a member of the House of Lords .

Subsequently, between 1999 and 2007, she was a liaison member of the House of Lords ( Liaison Peer ) for international development, and in 2009 chaired a survey commission on the organization of public procurement and in 2011 a survey commission on the organization of education. She is also a member of the International Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Nations .

In addition, she served as Chair of the Advisory Board of Transparency International UK between 2001 and 2009 and as Deputy Chair of the Independent Transport Commission (ITC) from 2001 to 2003 . Since 2003 she has been a member of the Council of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), one of the leading think tanks for overseas development, and since 2005 a member of the Advisory Board of the British Institute for Human Rights. Since 2006, Baroness Whitaker has been a member of the advisory body of the United Kingdom.

Baroness Whitaker is also a Fellow of the Working Men's College and Vice President of the British Humanist Association (BHA) and the One World Trust , an organization that promotes education and research. Finally, she also acts as President of the South Downs Society.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Introduction of Baroness Whitaker ( Hansard , November 3, 1999)
personal data
SURNAME Whitaker, Janet, Baroness Whitaker
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Whitaker, Janet Alison, Baroness Whitaker (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1936