List of Durham University People - Other Notable Political Figures

Other Notable Political Figures

  • Crispin Curtis Adeniyi-Jones - President of the Nigerian National Democratic Party and member of the legislative council of Nigeria from 1923-1938.
  • Rodney Atkinson - eurosceptic campaigner and economist
  • Anwar Choudhury - British High Commissioner to Bangladesh
  • Ruth First - anti-apartheid activist assassinated by the South African security services
  • George Gretton - Commissioner of the Scottish Law Commission
  • Dianne Hayter (Trevelyan) - former General secretary of the Fabian Society and current chair of Labour Party National Executive Committee
  • Kerryann Ifill (Durham Business School), President of the Senate of Barbados since 2012 (first woman and first person with a disability to hold that position)
  • Henry M. Joko-Smart - Sierra Leonean statesman, educator and Supreme Court Justice.
  • Matthew Kalkman author of New Liberalism (book).
  • Hans Kronberger CBE, FRS - Former Scientist-in-Chief at UKAEA
  • Norman Lacy, Australian politician
  • Eduardo J. Lopez-Reyes, National Vice Chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus, United States
  • Sir Milton Margai - first Prime Minister of Sierra Leone
  • Francis Ambrose Ridley - marxist, secularist and President of the National Secular Society from 1951 to 1963
  • Samir Sumaidaie - Ambassador of Iraq to the USA
  • Mike Tomlinson - Chief Inspector of Schools and chair of the Working Group for 14–19 Reform
  • Elsie Tu (Armstrong) - elected member of the Urban Council of Hong Kong, and member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
  • Steven Marshall - elected member for Norwood South Australia. Shadow Minister for Industry and Trade, Defence Industries, Small Business, Science and Information Economy, Environment and Conservation and Sustainability and Climate Change.

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