GFTU BGCM 2017

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).

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