The Rt Hon the Lord Kinnock

Foretitle(s): Baron (Life Peer UK 2005), of Bedwellty in the County of Gwent;
Surname: KINNOCK
Style: The Rt Hon the Lord Kinnock
Recreations: music (esp male voice choral work and opera), the theatre, rugby and association football, cricket, being with family

Career: UC Cardiff: pres Socialist Soc 1963-66, pres Union 1965-66, hon fell 1982; tutor organiser WEA 1966-70, memb Welsh Hosp Bd 1969-71, former memb BBC Gen Advsy Cncl; MP (Lab): Bedwellty 1970-83, Islwyn 1983-95; PPS to Sec of State for Employment 1974-75, memb Nat Exec Lab Party 1978-94, princ oppn front bench spokesman on educn 1979-83 (memb Shadow Cabinet 1980-92), leader Lab Pty and HM Oppn 1983-92, chm Lab Party 1987-88; EC: tport cmmr 1995-99, vice-pres for reform and cmmr for Audit, Personnel and Admin, Languages and Logistics 1999-2004; chair Br Cncl 2004-09; pres Univ of Cardiff 1998-2009; memb TGWU; Alexis de Tocqueville Prize European Inst of Public Admin 2003, Danish Shipowners' Cncl Prize 2004; Hon LLD: Univ of Wales 1992, Univ of Glamorgan 1996

Books and Publications: Wales and the Common Market (1971), Making Our Way - Investing in Britain's Future (1986), Thorns and Roses (1992)