Contact details
Westminster
House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 5050
alderdicej@parliament.uk
www.lordalderdice.com
Biography
Electoral history
Contested (Alliance Party) Belfast East 1987 and 1992 general elections
Lords career
Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Health 2010;
Convener of the Crossbench Liberal Democrat Peers 2010-;
Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Northern Ireland
Party groups
Alliance Party:
Executive Committee 1984-98:
Chair, Policy Committee 1985-87;
Party Vice-chair 1987,
Party Leader 1987-98;
European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party:
Executive Committee 1987-2003,
Treasurer 1995-99,
Vice-President 1999-2003;
Liberal International:
Deputy President 2000-05,
President 2005-09
Councils, public bodies
Councillor, Belfast City Council 1989-97;
Member:
Belfast Education and Library Board 1993-97,
Committee on Standards in Public Life 2010-
International bodies
Member, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (President Northern Ireland Assembly Branch) 2000-04;
Commissioner:
Independent Monitoring Commission 2003-11,
Commonwealth Commission on Respect and Understanding 2006-07
Political interests
Northern Ireland, psychoanalysis, terrorism and political conflict resolution, mental health
Countries of interest
Middle East
Name, style and title
Raised to the peerage as Baron Alderdice, of Knock in the City of Belfast 1996
Register of Interests
1: Directorships
President, ARTIS (Europe) Ltd (research and risk modelling, including psychology of terrorism and political violence; notional remuneration)
2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
Retired Consultant Psychiatrist
Occasional speeches, lectures and broadcasts
Member, UK Committee on Standards in Public Life
4: Shareholdings (a)
ARTIS (Europe) Ltd
7: Overseas visits
Visit to Tunisia, 31 March - 3 April 2012, with group of Parliamentarians to meet with the President of Tunisia, the President and Vice-President of the Parliament of Tunisia and other senior political figures; costs of visit, including travel and accommodation, organized and paid for by Council for European-Palestinian Relations.
Visit to Berlin, 12-13 December 2013, to attend meeting of parliamentarians from Europe and North Africa on the topic of relations between the two regions in light of the ‘Arab Spring’; overnight accommodation and travel costs met by German Ministry of Foreign Affairs
10: Non-financial interests (b)
Senior Research Fellow, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford
10: Non-financial interests (d)
Trustee, National Liberal Club
Chairman of Trustees, National Liberal Club
10: Non-financial interests (e)
President, Westminster Pastoral Foundation
Senior Adviser, Conflicts Forum
Adviser, Oxford Research Group
Member, Advisory Board, Centre for Reform
Chairman, World Federation of Scientists' Permanent Monitoring Panel on Motivation for Terrorism
Trustee, Methuen Trust, Corsham
Co-Chairman, International Dialogue Initiative
Trustee, Liberal Party Supplementary Pension Fund
Vice Chairman, Gulf Policy Forum
Member, Board of Trustees, The Climate Parliament (registered charity)