David Triesman, Baron Triesman
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David Maxim Triesman, Baron Triesman (born 30 October, 1943) is a Labour member of the House of Lords.
Triesman was educated at the Stationers' Company School, London, Essex University and King's College, Cambridge.
Mr Triesman's radicalism saw him suspended from Essex University in 1968 after breaking up a meeting addressed by a defence industry scientist. A strike by fellow students forced the university to reinstate him. He resigned the Labour Party in 1970, having joined in 1960 when he was 17. In 1970 he joined the Communist Party and he stayed in that party until the winter of 1976/1977, then rejoined the Labour party in 1977.
He was a lecturer and has become a visiting fellow at Cambridge once again in recent years.
David Triesman first became a full-time union official as deputy general secretary of NATFHE in 1984. He became the General Secretary of the Association of University Teachers trade union 1993 to 2001 and the General Secretary of the Labour Party 2001 to 2003. He was made a Life Peer in January 2004 as Baron Triesman, of Tottenham in the London Borough of Haringey.
| Preceded by: Margaret McDonagh | Labour Party General Secretary 2001 - 2003 | Followed by: Matt Carter |