Trevor Phillips to be Guest Speaker at 2007 Annual Dinner

Trevor Phillips, Chairman of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights, is to be our Guest Speaker at the Society's Annual Dinner on 14 November 2007. The title of his speech is Knowledge, Difference and Inequality: The Potential for Combustion.

Born in London, Trevor Phillips went to secondary school in Georgetown, Guyana before returning to London to study chemistry at Imperial College London where he was president of the students' union. He was elected NUS President in 1978. Since then he has had a varied career in both media and politics. He was elected to the London Assembly on 4 May 2000 and served as chair until February 2003, when he resigned his seat to take up the Chairmanship of the CEHR . He has been chair of the Runnymede Trust and commissioner for a number of other charities. With his brother, the crime writer Mike Phillips, he wrote Windrush: Irresistible Rise of Multi-racial Britain.

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