Reg Empey

**Reginald Norman Morgan Empey, Baron Empey**,  (born 26 October 1947), best known as **Reg Empey**, is a Unionist politician from Northern Ireland.

He was the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) from 2005 to 2010. He was the chairman of the Ulster Unionist Party from 2012 to 2019. Empey was also Lord Mayor of Belfast and was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for East Belfast from 1998 to 2011.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific-prefix**: The Right Honourable
- **name**: The Lord Empey
- **image**: Official portrait of Lord Empey crop 2, 2019.jpg
- **caption**: Empey in 2019
- **honorific-suffix**: Order of the British Empire, OBE
- **office**: Ulster Unionist Party, Chairman of the Ulster Unionist Party
- **leader**: Mike Nesbitt
 Robin Swann
 Steve Aiken
- **term start**: 1 April 2012
- **term end**: 23 December 2019
- **predecessor**: Robert David Stewart Campbell, David Campbell
- **successor**: Danny Kennedy
- **office1**: 13th Leaders of the Ulster Unionist Party, Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party
- **term start1**: 24 June 2005
- **term end1**: 22 September 2010
- **deputy1**: Danny Kennedy
- **1blankname1**: Chairman
- **1namedata1**: David Campbell (Northern Ireland politician, born 1965), David Campbell
- **2namedata1**: Dennis Rogan, Baron Rogan, The Lord Rogan
Robert John White, John White
- **predecessor1**: David Trimble, Baron Trimble, David Trimble
- **successor1**: Tom Elliott (politician), Tom Elliott
- **office2**: Department for Employment and Learning, Minister for Employment and Learning
- **term start2**: 8 May 2007
- **term end2**: 27 October 2010
- **predecessor2**: Carmel Hanna
- **successor2**: Danny Kennedy
- **office3**: Acting First Minister of Northern Ireland
- **alongside3**: Seamus Mallon
- **term start3**: 1 July 2001
- **term end3**: 6 November 2001
- **predecessor3**: David Trimble
- **successor3**: David Trimble
- **office4**: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment, Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Investment
- **term start4**: 1 July 1998
- **term end4**: 14 October 2002
- **predecessor4**: Good Friday Agreement, Office established
- **successor4**: Nigel Dodds
- **office5**: Member of the House of Lords
 Lords Temporal, Lord Temporal
- **term start5**: 19 January 2011
 Life peer, Life Peerage
- **office6**: Member of the Legislative Assembly (Northern Ireland), Member of the Legislative Assembly
for Belfast East (Assembly constituency), Belfast East
- **term start6**: 25 June 1998
- **term end6**: 5 May 2011
- **predecessor6**: _Good Friday Agreement, Office established_
- **successor6**: Michael Copeland (politician), Michael Copeland
- **birth name**: Reginald Norman Morgan Empey
- **birth place**: Belfast, Northern Ireland
- **nationality**: United Kingdom, British
- **party**: Ulster Unionist Party
<small>(Before 1973; 1984–2011; 2011-)</small>
- **otherparty**: Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party, Ulster Vanguard
<small>(1973–1975)</small>
 United Ulster Unionist Party
<small>(1975–1984)</small>
 Conservative Party (UK), Conservatives <small>(2011)</small>
- **spouse**: Stella Empey
- **children**: 2
- **profession**: Businessman
- **alma mater**: Queen's University Belfast