John Sewel, Baron Sewel

John Buttifant Sewel, Baron Sewel, of Gilcomstoun in the District of the City of Aberdeen, CBE ( born January 15, 1946) is a British economist, university lecturer and Labour Party politician, who has been in 1996 as a Life Peer Member of the House of Lords.

Life

High school teachers and local politicians

After schooling Sewel graduated in Economics at the University of Durham and the University College of Swansea, where he graduated with a Master of Science ( M.Sc.). Another post-graduate studies at the University of Aberdeen, he finished with a Doctor of Philosophy ( Ph.D.) and then began 1969 ibid an academic career, during which he first research scientist (Research Fellow ), Lecturer and Senior Lecturer was.

The mid-1970s he began in the Labour Party his political career in local politics and was 1974-1984 Member of the City Council of Aberdeen and in the meantime from 1977 to 1980 Chairman of the Council. At the same time he had from 1982 to 1984, the function of the President of the Convention of the Local Government in Scotland ( Convention for Scottish Local Authorities) holds. For his services in local politics, he was in 1984 Commander of the Order of the British Empire and was also from 1987 to 1996 Member of the Scottish Accounts Commission ( Accounts Commission for Scotland).

While he was 1989-1997 Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, he took over last from 1995 to 1997 also has the function of a vice - principal of the University of Aberdeen. During this period he belonged from 1994 to 1995 and the Scottish Constitutional Commission (Scottish Constitutional Commission) as a member.

House of Lords member

By Letters Patent of 10 January 1996 Sewel as a life peer with the title Baron Sewel, of Gilcomstoun in the District of the City of Aberdeen was raised to the peerage. Shortly afterwards, was his introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords. In the Upper House he belonged first to the fraction of the Labour Party, but is now a non-party ( non- affiliated ).

Early in his House of Lords membership, he was initially between 1996 and 1997 spokesman for the opposition Labour Group for Scotland before after the election of the Labour Party in the general election on 1 May 1997 and the inauguration of Prime Minister Tony Blair Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State in Scotland ministry he ( Scottish Office ) and was responsible to July 1999, for agriculture, environment, fisheries and forestry.

After retiring from the government took over Lord Sewel 1999-2004 a professor at the University of Aberdeen and was also from 1999 to 2001 only vice - principal and then to 2004, Executive Vice - principal of this university.

Since 2005 he is also a member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and is there at the same time since 2006 Chairman of the Subcommittee on Transatlantic Economic Relations. He is also dealing since 2006 Member of the House of Lords Committee on the European Union and since 2007 Chairman of the Subcommittee D, in the House of Lords, environment and agriculture in the EU.

Lord Sewel, the 2008 from the University of Aberdeen an honorary Doctor of Laws ( Hon. LL.D. ) was conferred in 2010 was opposition spokesman for Scotland and since 2012 Chairman of Committees (Chairman of the Committee ) and Deputy Lord Speaker.