Gordon Wasserman, Baron Wasserman Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Lord Wasserman
Office:Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Term Start:11 January 2011
Life peerage
Birth Date:26 July 1938
Birth Place:Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation:Politician, political adviser
Spouse:The Hon. Cressida Gaitskell (m. 1964; div. 2022)

Gordon Joshua Wasserman, Baron Wasserman (born 26 July 1938) is a Canadian Conservative politician and member of the British House of Lords who has been Government Adviser on Policing and Criminal Justice since 2011.

Career

Born in Canada, Wasserman was educated at Westmount High School, McGill University and New College, Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship.[1] He joined the Home Office as a civil servant in 1967[2] and worked variously as Economic Adviser, in the Urban Deprivation Unit and as an Assistant Under Secretary of State responsible successively for social policy and policing.

In his subsequent private sector career, Wasserman served as a consultant in public sector and police management, particularly in the use of science and technology in policing. He worked with the Police Commissioners of New York City, Philadelphia and Miami as well as the Department of Justice.

He was created a life peer as Baron Wasserman, of Pimlico in the City of Westminster, on 11 January 2011.[3]

Personal life

Wasserman married in 1964 the Hon. Cressida Gaitskell, younger daughter of Hugh Gaitskell and Dora Gaitskell, Baroness Gaitskell.[4] They have two daughters together. The marriage was dissolved in 2022.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Searchlight Profile. 5 November 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20140406045545/http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/archive/lord-wasserman-privatisation-guru. 6 April 2014. dead.
  2. Web site: Harvard Profile. 5 November 2012.
  3. Web site: House of Lords Official Profile . 5 November 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121017193850/http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/gordon-wasserman/90426 . 17 October 2012 .
  4. Web site: Women of History - G.
  5. Book: Anon. . Who's Who 2024 . 2024 . Bloomsbury Publishing, Bloomsbury Yearbooks . 9781399409452 . 176th .