Alan Mendoza
Dr Alan Lawrence Mendoza (born 2 August 1978) is a co-founder and executive director of the Henry Jackson Society. He is also a former Conservative Party councillor in the London Borough of Brent.[1]
Education
Mendoza obtained a B.A. (Hons.) and M.Phil in history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and completed a Ph.D. at the same institution focusing on Anglo-American relations during the Bosnian War, 1992-1995.[2]
In his 2001 book on Bosnia, Unfinest Hour Brendan Simms credited Mendoza with sharing his expertise on American politics and transcripts of interviews with key figures in London and Washington.[3]
Career
Mendoza ran a contract publishing company for ten years which specialized in producing publications for international organizations.[4]
Mendoza became co-president in 2000 of the Disraelian Union, which he describes as "a political networking salon."[5]
In February 2006, he was appointed executive director of the Henry Jackson Society.[5]
In April 2009, he became director of Worldview Strategy Ltd.[5]
Register of interests
Mendoza's entry in the Brent Council register of interests notes that he is an executive director of the Henry Jackson Society and a director of Worldview Strategy Ltd. It also notes that he is 'a member or in a position of general control or management of the following bodies one of whose principal purposes include the influence of public opinion or policy':
- Conservative Party
- Conservative Councillors' Association
- Conservative Party Foreign Policy Forum
- The Disraelian Union
- Conservative Friends of Israel
- Atlantic Council of the UK [6]
Affiliations
- Henry Jackson Society - Co-Founder and Executive Director
- Disraelian Union - Co-Founder and Co-President
- The Centre for Strategic Analysis Ltd - Company director
- The Centre for Strategic Assessment Ltd - Company director
- Friends of Israel Initiative - Company director
- Worldview Strategy Ltd - Company director
- British American Project - Former company director[7]
- All-Party Parliamentary Group on Transatlantic & International Security - Convenor
- All-Party Parliamentary Group on Homeland Security - Convenor
- Electric Infrastructure Security Council - Advisory Board member[4]
- Israel Diaspora Trust
- Jewish Leadership Council - employs his wife Claudia Mendoza as head of policy and research[8]
External resources
- Suzanne Pollak, At AIPAC conference, talk of Europe's anti-Israel stance, Washington Jewish Week, 3 June 2013.
Notes
- ↑ Alan Mendoza, CentreRight, ConservativeHome, accessed 13 April 2009.
- ↑ Alan Mendoza, CentreRight, ConservativeHome, accessed 13 April 2009.
- ↑ Brendan Simms, Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia, Penguin, 2002.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 http://www.eiscouncil.com/English/About/about_board.asp?boardId=72 Dr Alan Mendoza, Electric infrastructure Security Council, accessed 9 April 2013.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Alan Mendoza, LinkedIn, accessed 9 April 2013.
- ↑ Brent Council, Register of interests history, Councillor Alan Mendoza 03/05/2009 - 26/10/2009 [Accessed 15 October 2010]
- ↑ Alan Laurence Mendoza, company-director-check.co.uk, accessed 20 March 2013.
- ↑ Marcus Dysch, The best weapon against hate? Reasoned debate, Jewish Chronicle, 4 September 2014, accessed 17 September 2014
