Our Trustees represent a broad spectrum of academics, journalists and people active in community work.

Susan Himmelweit

Professor of Economics at the Open University, Sue is also an Associate Editor of Feminist Economics and a member and former chair of the UK Women's Budget Group (insert link - http://www.wbg.org.uk), a think tank that advises the UK Treasury on the gender implications of economic policy. She is currently engaged in research on the influence of social norms on mothers’ decisions about work and childcare as part of the ESRC’s programme on the Future of Work. Her last book was Inside the Household: from Labour to Care (2000).

Steve Jefferys

A Youth CND and Committee of 100 activist in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Steve joined the Labour Party briefly from 1962 to 1964, but left in protest against Harold Wilson’s refusal to increase old age pensions in the first winter of the 1964-70 Labour government. Following three years as a student activist at the LSE betwee1965 and 1968, Steve’s first job was on the line in the Chrysler Linwood factory in Scotland. Between 1968 and 1984 he was an activist in what started as the International Socialists and became the Socialist Workers’ Party. In 1980 he went to Warwick University where he wrote a PhD on the unionisation of the Chrysler Dodge Main plant in the US. He joined the Lipman Miliband Trust in 1996 and since 1998 has been part of the Socialist Register (insert link: http://www.yorku.ca/socreg) editorial collective. In 2002 Steve helped found and then became Director of the Working Lives Research Institute (link www.workinglives.org). Steve’s last book was Liberté, Egalité and Fraternité at Work: Changing French Employment Relations and Management (2003).

Marion Kozak

Marion trained as a historian specialising in early 20th century British women’s social history and the inter-war years. She worked for many years in the voluntary sector’s campaigning organisations around feminist concerns and in social policy research. She has been a trustee of the Lipman Miliband Trust since 1995 and its Secretary since 2001.

Doreen Massey

Professor of Geography at the Open University and a trustee of the Lipman Miliband Trust since 1990, Doreen has written widely on regional inequality, globalisation and urban issues. In 1997 she co-founded Soundings (http://www.l-w-bks.co.uk/journals/soundings/contents.html)– a journal of politics and culture – which she continues to co-edit. She is a member of the national council of Catalyst (http://www.catalystforum.org.uk/), the left wing think tank. Her latest book is For Space (2005).

John Schwarzmantel

John has been a trustee of the Lipman-Miliband Trust since 1982. Between 1985-2001 he was our treasurer and from 1994-2001 he also acted as chair and secretary. He is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Leeds where is currently Director of the Centre for Democratisation Studies (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/polis/research/democStd/). His main academic interests are in political theory, with a particular focus on questions of nationalism, democratic theory and political ideologies in contemporary politics. In April 2001, he organised a conference on behalf of the Trust on ‘Nationalism and the Left’ with wide participation of speakers from the UK and abroad. His most recent publications include Citizenship and Identity (2003), The Age of Ideology (1998) and he is co-editor of Democracy; a Reader (2001).

Hilary Wainwright

Longstanding editor of British left green magazine Red Pepper (insert link www.redpepper.org.uk) and fellow of both the Transnational Institute (TNI) (www.tni.org) in Amsterdam and the Centre for Global Governance at the LSE, Hilary is currently working for the TNI’s New Politics project. Her work focuses on what happens to "People Power" or popular resistance in the face of corporate-driven globalisation. Co-author, with Sheila Rowbotham and Lynne Seagal of the classic feminist book, Beyond the Fragments (1979), Hilary’s most recent books include Reclaim the State. Adventures in Popular Democracy (2003) and Arguments for a New Left. Answering the Free Market Right (1993). A founding member of Charter 88, the movement to democratise Britain's feudal state, and convenor of the economic democracy workshop of the Helsinki Citizens Assembly, Wainwright is also on the editorial board of the UK political think tank, Catalys.