RoSPA Press Office : Press Release

October 29, 2001
NEW PRESIDENT FOR RoSPA

Lord Faulkner of Worcester is the new President of The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.

He was elected at RoSPA’s annual meeting in Birmingham, and succeeds Lord Davies of Oldham, who stepped down from the post after being appointed a Government Whip. Lord Faulkner will also chair the Society’s Executive Committee.

He has a background in safety thanks to experience with Department of Transport and the Football Trust.

Lord Faulkner is a Labour peer and was appointed to the House of Lords in 1999. He is the Departmental Liaison Peer at the Cabinet Office, and worked with Lord Macdonald at the Department of Transport in the last Parliament. He is a director of Cardiff Millennium Stadium plc, and adviser to Littlewoods Leisure.

Richard Faulkner has immense experience in the transport sector, having been adviser to the British Railways Board for 20 years before joining the House of Lords. He is honorary Vice-President of Transport 2000.

Before 1999 he was Deputy Chairman of Citigate Westminster, the leading public affairs and PR consultancy. He advised a range of leading organisations, including Cardiff County Council, Littlewoods, the Financial Services Authority and Standard Life Assurance.

For 18 years Lord Faulkner was a leading member of the Football Trust, serving as a trustee, secretary and first deputy chairman. He played an influential part in assisting professional football clubs transform their stadia in implementing safety legislation in the aftermath of the Ibrox and Hillsborough disasters.