Frank Judd

Frank Ashcroft Judd was made a life Peer in 1991 and is a consulatant on social and political affairs. The director of Oxfam 1985-91 he was a Labour MP and PPS to harold Wilson as leader of the Opposition from 1970-72. from that he moved to the front bench as part of the Defence Team, becoming Parliamentary undersecretary of state for Defence at the MOD (1974-76), the minister for Overseas Development (1976-77) at the FCO.

Once enobled he was opposition spokesman of Foreign Affairs and overseas development (1991-92). Judd was also an independent adviser to the UK delegation in a UN session on disarmament in 1982. He was the associate director of an International Defence Aid Fund for Southern Africa (1979-80). The chairman of the Centre for World Development (1980-85); the International Council of Voluntary Agencies (1985-90); the World Economic Forum Conference in Geneva on the future of South Africa (1990-91).

He was a member of the World Bank's steering committee on NGOs (1989-91); the international Commission on Global Governance (1992). He is a past chairman of the fabian Society; the Oxford Diocaesan Board for Social Responsibility (1992-), a member of the Council for Overseas Development Institute, the Association of Scientific, Technical and managerial Staffs (Union for Manufacturing, Science and Finance); the governing body of Queen Elizabeth House Oxford University (1989-); the council for Charitable Support (1991-); an adminisatrator for the World Humanitarian Action Trust; a governor of the London School of Economics (1982-), Westminster College Oxford (1991-), an honary fellow of the university of Portsmouth,