Mr John Edmonds

Career: GMB (formerly GMWU): res asst 1965-67, dep res offr 1967-68, regnl organiser 1968-72, nat offr 1972-85, gen sec 1986-2003; pres TUC 1997-98; visiting fell Nuffield Coll Oxford 1986-94; sr research fell KCL 2003-; formerly: dir Nat Building Agency, memb Royal Cmmn on Environmental Pollution; govr: LSE, Nat Inst of Economic and Social Research 1999-; pres Unity Bank 2000-03, memb Nat Economic Devpt Cncl 1986-88; chair Inland Waterways Advsy Cncl (IWAC) 2006-; non-exec dir: Carbon Tst 2001-, Environment Agency 2002-09, Salix Finance 2003-; tstee: Inst of Public Policy Res 1990-2000, NSPCC 1997-2001; memb: Cncl ACAS 1990-2001, Cncl Consumers' Assoc 1993-96, Gen Cncl TUC, Forestry Cmmn 1995-2001; Hon LLD Univ of Sussex 1993; FRSA 1989-91