William Brian Jordan, Baron Jordan, (born 28 January 1936), known as Bill Jordan, is a British economist and
Labour politician.
The son of Walter and Alice Jordan, he was educated at the
Barford Road Secondary Modern School in
Birmingham
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.
Jordan was President of the
Amalgamated Engineering Union
The Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU) was a major United Kingdom, British trade union. It merged with the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union to form the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union in 1992.
History ...
(AEU), and then its successor, the
Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union
The Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union (AEEU) was a British trade union. It merged with the MSF to form Amicus in 2001.
History
The union was founded in 1992, when the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU) finally achieved a merger ...
(AEEU), from 1986 to 1994. During the same time, he was a member of the
Trades Union Congress
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(TUC) General Council. In 1995, he became
General Secretary
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of the
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
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(ICFTU), a post he held until 2002.
He was also a long-serving governor of the
London School of Economics
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from 1987 to 2002, and of the
BBC
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from 1988 to 1998.
Jordan was appointed a Commander of the
Order of the British Empire
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(CBE) in the
1992 New Year Honours
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, and was created a
life peer
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with the title Baron Jordan, of
Bournville
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in the
County of West Midlands, on 5 June 2000.
Since 1958, Lord Jordan has been married to Jean Ann Livesey; they have three daughters, nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
References
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1936 births
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
General secretaries of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
Labour Party (UK) life peers
Living people
Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress
Presidents of the Amalgamated Engineering Union
Presidents of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union
Life peers created by Elizabeth II
Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts
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