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undertaking institutional review activity in Oman and Australia. Phil is interested
in obtaining academic validation for GFTU courses.
Mark Childs,
project manager for GFTU’s new build and partner at HMC
Chartered Surveyors and Property Managers with whom the GFTU has worked
successfully for a number of years.
Anthony Cleckner,
works for RedMeet a company specialising and travel and
accommodation bookings for the voluntary sector and trade union movement.
Mark Dallas
, Dip PFS, Managing Director Lighthouse Charnwood Ltd, GFTU’s
preferred financial advisory company.
Paul De Felice,
Principal Ruskin College,
Paul has a wealth of experience in
teaching, leadership and management across FE and HE sectors. For over 20
years Paul taught history in both higher and further education contexts and has
focused particularly on making history accessible and meaningful to all. Paul has
a very strong background in post 16 adult education and the widening
participation curriculum and has led the ‘inclusive’ provision for adults and young
people in three Colleges. Leadership and management are Paul’s key strengths,
he has served at every level within a College structure and held the position of
Vice Principal in three institutions. Paul has been an Open University Associate
Lecturer in Arts and Humanities for the past decade, he holds a PGCE in Further
Education and studied History and Politics at the University of Salford. Paul
completed his MPhil on his Italian working class roots, looking at Italian
migration into Manchester in his grandparents’ day.
Zinar Demeni,
is working with the GFTU on the organisation of the Kurdish
Festival. He is keen to build more links between the Kurdish communities in
Britain (some 200,000 people) and the trade union movement. Zinar represents
the Kurdistan Solidarity Campaign which has brought 27 national groups
together.
Stefan Dickers,
is the GFTU archivist, our collection is in the archive and library
which Stefan manages in the Bishopsgate Institute, London. This houses one of
the most important Labour Movement collections particularly of the late
nineteenth century. Stefan was responsible for the transfer of the GFTU records
to the Institute and their subsequent digitisation. He hosted a GFTU EC meeting
at the Institute and gave a tour of the archives.
Larry Elliott,
is the economics editor of The Guardian, Larry last addressed the
GFTU in 2009. As well as his regular economics column in The Guardian he is
author of the following useful books which trade unionists will find highly
readable: Going South: Why Britain will have a Third World Economy by 2014 by
Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). The Gods that Failed:
How Blind Faith in Markets has Cost us Our Future by Larry Elliott and Dan
Atkinson (The Bodley Head, 2008). Fantasy Island by Larry Elliott and Dan
Atkinson (Constable, 2007). In or Out: Labour and the Euro by Larry Elliott,
Andrew Gamble, Janet Bush (Fabian Society, 2002). The Age of Insecurity by
Larry Elliott, Dan Atkinson (Verso Books, 1998).