Victor Adebowale, Baron Adebowale

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Victor Adebowale, Baron Adebowale

Victor Olufemi Adebowale, Baron Adebowale CBE (born July 21, 1962 ) is a British politician and life peer . He was one of the first “People's Peers” .

life and career

Adebowale was born in 1962 to Nigerian parents, Ezekiel and Grace Adebowale. He attended Thornes House School in Wakefield and the Polytechnic of East London . He began his career in Local Authority Estate Management before joining the Housing Association Movement .

In 1983 he was a Private Sector Repairs Administrator in the London Borough of Newham . From 1983 to 1984 he was Estate Officer there and from 1984 to 1986 Senior Estate Manager. He was permanent property manager at the Patchwork Community Housing Association from 1986 to 1988 . From 1988 to 1990 he was regional director of the Ujima Housing Association , Britain's largest black-run housing association . He served as director of the Alcohol Recovery Project from 1990 to 1995 ; From 1995 to 2001 he was Chief Executive of Centrepoint , a charity for young homeless people . Adebowale was a member of the Social Exclusion Unit's Policy Action Team on Young People and Chair of the Review of Social Housing Co-ordination at the Institute for Public Policy Research.

Since September 2001 he has been CEO of the Turning Point organization . Turning Point is a national relief organization that provides services to people with complex needs; Target groups include people with drug and alcohol problems , the mentally ill and people with learning difficulties . Adebowale is also Company Secretary there . He is also a non-executive director of St Vincent Healthcare Ltd .

Adebowale holds a Post Graduate Diploma from the Tavistock Institute and a Master of Arts in Advanced Organizational Consulting from City University London . He is Director of Leadership in Mind Organizational Development Consultancy and a member of the Audit Commission . He advised governments of all parties on labor, housing, poverty and public service reform. In 2007 he was a member of the Employment and Skills Commission . Until 2009 Adebowale was a council member of the Social Enterprise Coalition . He was president of the Community Practitioners 'and Health Visitors' Association .

Membership in the House of Lords

He is one of the earliest People's Peers to be appointed under the Tony Blair administration and has been a life peer as Baron Adebowale, of Thornes in the County of West Yorkshire, since June 30, 2001 . Its official inauguration took place on October 24, 2001 at the House of Lords with the assistance of Francis Hare, 6th Earl of Listowel and Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton . There he sits as a crossbencher . On December 19, 2001, he gave his inaugural address.

He gives the fight against poverty , urban renewal ( regeneration ) and the arts as his political interests . He mentions Italy , Nigeria and the USA as states of particular interest .

Adebowale's presence on meeting days is in the low to medium range.

Other offices

In 1999 Adebowale was Chair of the Review of Social Housing at the Institute of Public Policy Research. From 2003 to 2004 he was Chairman of the Barrow Cadbury Trust Review of Life Chances and Poverty at the Fabian Society . He chaired the Advisory Panel on Race Impact Assessment in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) and from 2005 to 2008 chaired the Stop and Search Community Panel .

Since 2002 he has been co- chair of the Mental Health Steering Group of the Ministry of Health and since 2003 of the Black and Minority Ethnic Mental Health Steering Group . He is a member of the New Deal Task Force and Policy Action Team 12 on Young People Social Exclusion Unit . Adebowale was a member of the Advisory Council of Demos , the National Employment Panel (until 2007), the Institute of Fiscal Studies from 2002 to 2007, the Board of Places for People (until 2007), and the National School of Government .

He was a member of the Employment and Trading Commission and Director of Leadership in Mind . Until 2006 he was a member of the trustee of the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID), until 2007 of the National Economics Foundation . Adebowale is patron ( saint ) of the Nurse Trading Council on Alcohol , Mix Rich Cultural Center and the Center for Inclusion and Diversity of the University of Bradford .

He is visiting professor and since December 2008 Chancellor of Lincoln University .

Honors

Adebowale is an Honorary Fellow at South Bank University and an Associate in the Health Services Management Center at the University of Birmingham . Adebowale is a Fellow of the Sunningdale Institute and the National School of Government . He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts .

Adebowale received several honorary doctorates . The University of Central England and the University of East London honored him with an honorary doctorate as an Hon PhD . He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Bradford and a Doctor of Letters (Hon DLitt) from Lincoln University.

In 2000, he was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) on the New Year's Honors List in recognition of his contributions to the New Deal and for his commitment to the unemployed and homeless young people. In 2009, Inside Housing magazine ranked him among the 25 most influential people in housing policy for the past 25 years.

Publications

  • Alcohol Problems in the Community: Drinking Problems Among Black Communities , Routledge Chapman & Hall, 1996, ISBN 978-0415110426
  • New Deal and the Disadvantaged , 1999.
  • Review of Social Housing , 2000.
  • Review of the Most Disadvantaged: Scond report , 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lord Adebowale Entry on the House of Lords website , accessed June 15, 2013
  2. ↑ Lord Adebowale in: The Guardian, May 23, 2007
  3. ↑ The people's peers: seven knights, a lord's wife and three professors in: The Guardian, April 27, 2001
  4. ↑ Lord Adebowale Extract from the minutes of the House of Lords meeting of October 24, 2001
  5. ↑ House of Lords: Members 'expenses Members' expenses on the House of Lords website , accessed April 6, 2013
  6. ↑ Alumni Newsletters ( Memento of February 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Website of the UEL Alumni Network , accessed on June 15, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Adebowale, Victor, Baron Adebowale
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adebowale, Victor Adebowale Baron; Adebowale, Victor Olufemi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British life peer and chief executive of Turning Point
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1962