Diana Warwick, Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe

Diana Mary Warwick, Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe, of Undercliffe in the County of West Yorkshire (* July 16, 1945 ) is a British Labour Party politician and same official, and since 1999 member of the House of Lords.

Life

Diana Warwick was founded in 1983 by Laurie Sapper successor as general secretary of the trade union of university teachers ( Association of University Teachers ) and has held this function for ten years until it was replaced by David Triesman in 1993 from. Besides this activity, she was active at this time in numerous other bodies and institutions and, among other things, between 1985 and 1995 board member of the British Council and from 1987 to 1999 as a member of the Employment Appeals Tribunal ( Employment Appeal Tribunal ) and between 1987 and 1997 Member of the Board and Council of Industrial Society, which was renamed The Work Foundation, 2002.

In addition, it was between 1988 and 1995 a member of the Commonwealth Institute and then from 1994 to 1999 a member of the Nolan Committee Neil on Standards in Public Life. Furthermore, there was Diana Warwick 1997-2000 Member of the Steering Group for future technology (Technology Foresight Steering Group ) of the Office of Science and Technology (OST ).

On 10 July 1999, she was raised by a Letters Patent as Life Peeress with the title Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe, of Undercliffe in the County of West Yorkshire in the peerage. On 15 July 1999 their introduction ( Introduction) followed as a member of the House of Lords. As such it is at the same time since 1999 a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the Parlamentischen Assembly of the Commonwealth of Nations and the British - American Parliamentary Group.

Furthermore, Baroness Warwick is involved in numerous companies and institutions, and is chairman of the Human Tissue Authority, the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick as well as Chairman of the Trustees of the International Students House (ISH ) in London. She is also a board member of the Pensions Protection Agency, Member of the Council of University College London ( UCL) and a member of the Commission for the Fulbright program.