Herman Ouseley, Baron Ouseley Explained

Honorific Prefix:The Right Honourable
Honorific-Suffix:Kt
The Lord Ouseley
Birth Name:Herman George Ouseley
Birth Date:1945 3, df=yes
Birth Place:Guyana
Member of the House of Lords
Term:2001–2019

Herman George Ouseley, Baron Ouseley Kt (born 24 March 1945) is a British parliamentarian, who has run public authorities, including local councils and is an adviser and reviewer of public services organisations. Lord Ouseley has expertise in equality and diversity issues and is the Chairperson of several charitable organisations as well as being a Patron for dozens of organisations. He has been at the forefront of challenging institutional racism in organisations and is an advocate on behalf of individuals from disadvantaged and deprived backgrounds.

He sat in the House of Lords as a crossbencher from 2001 until his retirement in 2019.[1] He was also included in the 2003 list of "100 Great Black Britons".[2]

Early life

Lord Ouseley was born in Guyana in 1945, and came to England in 1957, when he was 11. He was educated at William Penn School and at Catford College, where he gained a diploma in municipal administration.[3]

Career

Ouseley was a local government officer between 1963 and 1993. He was appointed as the first principal race relations advisor in local government. From 1981, he served as Principal Race Relations Adviser and head of the Greater London Council's Ethnic Minority Unit.[4] He later became Chief Executive of the London Borough of Lambeth and the former Inner London Education Authority (the first black person to hold such an office), responsible for over 1000 schools and colleges across the capital.[5] Ouseley was chair and chief executive in the Commission for Racial Equality from 1993 to 2000.[6] [7]

Since 1996 he has been a director of Brookmight Security and, from 2000, of Focus Consultancy. He was the Managing Director of Different Realities Partnership between 2000 and 2005 and, since then, has been operating as a self-employed management consultant undertaking reviews of organisations' performance and assignments in pursuit of equality and diversity outcomes.

Honours

Ouseley was made a Knight Bachelor in the 1997 New Year Honours for "services to community relations and local government", and was made a life peer as Baron Ouseley, of Peckham Rye in the London Borough of Southwark on 26 June 2001.

Ouseley has 13 honorary degrees:[8] from the Universities of Edinburgh,[9] Sheffield Hallam,[10] Bradford, Leicester,[11] Leeds Met, Warwick,[12] Oxford Brookes,[13] Greenwich,[14] London South Bank,[15] London Metropolitan, North East London, Staffordshire,[16] and Brighton.[17]

Work on racism

In 1993, Ouseley set up the project to tackle racism in football and is the Chairperson of Kick It Out, the internationally acclaimed campaign to make football free from discrimination and abuse and to be more inclusive of people of all backgrounds.[18] [19]

Ouseley did not receive a salary for his work for Kick It Out.[20]

Other activities

Ouseley chairs The Chandran Foundation (formerly Preset Education Charity) since 1997, providing specialist education provision for young people with learning disadvantages. He is a Council Member for the Institute of Relations, a think tank focused on challenging injustices and inequalities. He is also on the board of directors of the Manchester United Foundation and is a lifelong fan of Manchester United and supports his local team Millwall and Dulwich Hamlet, one of the local teams he played for as a youngster.

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References

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lord Ouseley. UK Parliament. 25 May 2019.
  2. Web site: 100 Great Black Britons - Herman Ousley. www.100greatblackbritons.com.
  3. Web site: Profile: On the Level with Lord Ouseley . . 5 August 2019.
  4. Book: Ouseley . Herman . Boddy . Martin . Fudge . Colin . [{{GBurl|ZkFdDwAAQBAJ}} Local Socialism?: Labour Councils and New Left Alternatives ]. 1984 . 133–159 . 5 August 2019 . Local Authority Race Initiatives.
  5. News: Wadsworth . Marc . Wilson . Cherry . Campaigners question why local government bosses are almost all white . 5 August 2019 . . 11 October 2010.
  6. News: Torode . John . A victim takes control: Herman Ouseley: The Commission for Racial Equality is riven by conflict . 5 August 2019 . . 25 April 1993.
  7. News: UK race equality chief retires . 5 August 2019 . . 23 July 1999.
  8. Web site: Lord Herman Ouseley . Migration Museum . 25 September 2019.
  9. News: Glittering prizes . 25 September 2019 . . 21 May 1999.
  10. Web site: Honorary awards . . 25 September 2019.
  11. Web site: Honorary Graduates . . 25 September 2019 . 14 April 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180414091828/https://www2.le.ac.uk/institution/graduation/previous/honorary-graduates . dead .
  12. Web site: List of all Honorary Graduates and Chancellor's Medallists . . 25 September 2019.
  13. Web site: Honorary graduates - list by year . . 25 September 2019.
  14. Web site: Honorary Graduates . . 25 September 2019.
  15. Web site: Honorary Awards Ceremony . . 25 September 2019.
  16. Web site: The Hon. Lord Herman Ouseley KT . . 25 September 2019.
  17. Web site: Honorary graduates . . 25 September 2019.
  18. News: Richard Keys resigns from Sky after sexist remarks . BBC Sport . 26 January 2011. 26 January 2011.
  19. Web site: About Kick It Out . Kick it Out! . 13 August 2018 . 13 August 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180813211100/http://www.kickitout.org/about/ . dead .
  20. Web site: How can a sport worth billions spend just a pittance on fighting racism?. Daniel. Taylor. 15 December 2018. The Guardian.