David Alliance, Baron Alliance

David Alliance, Baron Alliance, GBE (born 15 June 1932) is a British businessman and Liberal Democrat politician of Jewish origin from Iran.

Political Career

Lord Alliance serves on a number of committees including the Prince’s Youth Business Trust, Council for Industry and Higher Education, the University of Manchester Foundation, and the Weizmann Institute. He is senior trustee of the Next Century Foundation. He has a number of fellowships including Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce; Fellow of the City and Guilds of London Institute; and Hon. Fellow of the Shenkar College of Textile Technology and Fashion. Lord Alliance holds a Doctorate of Science at Heriot-Watt University and Legum Doctor (Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa) from the University of Manchester. He is an Honorary Fellow of UMIST.

Alliance was appointed a CBE in 1984 and promoted to GBE in 1989. He was created a life peer as Baron Alliance, of Manchester in the County of Greater Manchester, in 2004 and sits on the Liberal Democrat benches

External References

http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-alliance/3710