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Michael Bishop

Sir Michael Bishop is a British businessman and a Conservative life peer. He was executive chairman of British Midland until he sold his stake in the airline to Lufthansa on 1 July 2009 for a reported £223m, boosting his estimated personal fortune of £280 million Sunday Times Rich List, "Sir Michael Bishop". The Times (London), 27 April 2008. Acc 2 November 2008 to over nearly £500 million.
Bishop was also Deputy Chairman of Airtours plc, a Non-Executive Director of Kidde plc and Chairman of Channel 4 Television from 1993-97.Queen's University Belfast Honorary Graduands 2002 Accessed 4 Sep 2007
On 1 February 2011, Bishop was created a life peer as Baron Glendonbrook, of Bowdon in the County of Cheshire, and was introduced in the House of Lords on 22 March 2011,House of Lords Minute of Proceedings for 22 March 2011. where he sits as a Conservative.
==Labour and Tory donor==
According to the MP's Register of Financial Interests:
*Henry Bellingham - in March 2010 Bishop gave him £25,000 for help with responsibilities as Shadow Minister for Justice. House of Commons, REGISTER OF MEMBERS’ FINANCIAL INTERESTS as at 6 September 2010 
*David Willetts - in February 2010 gave him £35,000 to support the work of his office as Shadow Secretary of State for Universities and Skills, to pay annual salary of research assistant.
In 1999 Bishop attended the £350-a-head gala dinner at the Bournemouth Pavilion ballroom during the 1999 Labour Party Conference. The dinner raised £250,000 for the Labour Party. Sir Michael Bishop was a former Tory supporter, who lent planes to John Major's election campaignThe Times; Home; 29 Sep 1999; 'Blair dinner raises Pounds 250,000 and eyebrows' Andrew Pierce and Tom Baldwin.
British Midland gave more than £5,000 in sponsorship to the Labour Party in 1999-2000Financial Times; National News; 5 Sep 2000 'Campaigns put Labour in the red Politics Four Elections Prove a Strain of Party Coffers' Andrew Parker
==Donations==
Bishop donated £50,000 on 3 June 2016 to Britain Stronger in Europe, the pro-EU campaign which failed to deliver a 'Remain' vote in the UK's EU membership referendum on 23 June 2016. Electoral Commission, The In Campaign Donations, accessed 29 June 2016 
==Affiliations==
*Trustee, Michael Bishop Foundation 	
*Trustee, Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia 
*Trustee, Imperial War Museum Foundation
*European Advisory Panel, member
*The In Campaign, donor 
== References ==
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Michael Bohnen

Michael Bohnen is the president of Jewish philanthropy at the Adelson Family Charitable Foundation. Tamar Marad, 09-December-2006, Haartez, Accessed 28-February-2009 He was formerly a partner at law firm Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP Linkedin, Profile, Michael Bohnen, Accessed 28-February-2009
==Affiliations==
Democracy and Security International Conference, Attendee Democracy and Security Conference, List of Participants, Accessed 25-February-2009| Adelson Family Charitable Foundation | Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP
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Michael Boyce

Admiral of the Fleet Michael Boyce (Baron Boyce) is a former First Sea Lord of the British Royal Navy and was the army's Chief of the Defence Staff from 2001 until 2003.Who's who: the five military men attacking Brown, MailOnline, 23 November 2007. 
 Boyce was made a peer in the House of Lords in June 2003. Lord Boyce Parliament.UK, last accessed 15 September 2017 
After retiring from public service Lord Boyce took on five private sector jobs including one with WS Atkins, a major military support services outsourcer. Private Eye 
==Affiliations==
*VT Group plc - non-executive director, (remunerated) check when ceased)
*WS Atkins plc -non-executive director 
*Protection Group International (risk-mitigation and security company), Chairman, Advisory Board 
*Institute for Security and Resilience Studies chk dates 
*Chairman D Group Advisory Board 
*Sherpa Millbank - adviser (strategic counsel to companies) 
==Biography==
:Born in 1943, Lord Boyce was educated at Hurstpierpoint College and the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. He joined the Royal Navy in 1961 and rose to the position of First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff, in 1998. He served as Chief of the Defence Staff and Aide-de-Camp to H.M. the Queen from February 2001. On his retirement, in 2003, Admiral Sir Michael Boyce was created a Life Peer (with the title Baron Boyce of Pimlico in the City of Westminster) and he now sits as a cross-bencher in the House of Lords. In April 2011 he was created a Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter. The Lord Warden was appointed by The Queen, on the advice of the Prime Minister.
==External Resources==
*Oral Evidence: Sir Kevin Tebbit and Michael Boyce, Iraq Inquiry, 3 December 2009.
*Campaign Against the Arms Trade, Call the shots: The Revolving Door,
*Campaign Against the Arms Trade, Lord Boyce, Meetings, Political Influence database
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Michael Bradshaw

Mike Bradshaw is professor of global energy at Warwick Business School. 
In June 2015 Professor Bradshaw called for independent funding for research into community engagement and public attitudes to shale gas. Speaking at the Shale UK conference in Liverpool, he told delegates:
:'It is not our role to be advocates. The role of academic research is to provide independent evidence to add to the debate. It is not our role to compensate for the inadequacies of the government or industry.
:The biggest problem we face is that we cannot get the funding from independent sources on a sufficient scale to carry out social science research. For whatever reason, the government is happy to spend millions on drilling but not on funding the social science research.'
Professor Bradshaw pointed out that the Royal Society 2012 report on shale gas had recommended a cross-council programme of research involving social, earth and engineering sciences. Despite the report being used by the government to endorse fracking, “Nothing has been done to realise that recommendation. We are anxious to play a role to inform the debate but there simply isn’t the funding. But if we were to do it, it would not be as advocates. Drill or Drop, “Scandalous” shortage of money for research into public engagement on fracking, conference told, coverage of the Shale UK conference in Liverpool, 24 June 2015 
==Biography==
:Prof. Bradshaw's academic background is in human geography. He competed his undergraduate training at the University of Birmingham (BSc) and he has an MA from the University of Calgary (Alberta) and he gained his PhD at the University of British Columbia. He works at the interface between economic and political geography, energy studies and international relations. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (and past Vice President) and an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences.
:Prof. Bradshaw's research has focused on the geopolitical economy of global energy. For almost 20 years he has studied the development of the Sakhalin oil and gas projects in Russia's Far East. This has led to research on energy security in northeast Asia. He is currently examining Russia’s plans to develop its liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry. From 2008 to 2011 he was engaged in a programme of research examining the relationship between energy security, globalization and climate change, funded by a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship. In October 2013 Polity Press published his book entitled Global Energy Dilemmas. He is currently completing a research project on Global Gas Security that is funded by the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC). He plans to continue his research on the global geopolitical economy of the gas industry and is now working on the prospects for the development of shale gas in the UK and Europe (he is involved in a Pan European project on shale gas). He also plans to continue research on North American fossil fuel abundance and the global geopolitics of fossil fuels with further support from UKERC.
==Affiliations==
*All-Party Parliamentary Group on Unconventional Oil and Gas
*UKERC
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Michael Burleigh

Michael Burleigh is a British historian.
His website gives his biography as follows:
::In 1977 Michael Burleigh took a first class honours degree in Medieval and Modern History at University College London, winning the Pollard, Dolley and Sir William Mayer prizes. After a PhD in medieval history in 1982, he went on to hold posts at New College, Oxford, the London School of Economics, and Cardiff where he was Distinguished Research Professor in Modern History. He has also been Raoul Wallenberg Chair of Human Rights at Rutgers University in New Jersey, William Rand Kenan Professor of History at Washington & Lee University in Virginia, and Kratter Visiting Professor at Stanford University, California. In 2002 he gave the three Cardinal Basil Hume Memorial Lectures at Heythrop College, University of London. He is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Institut für Zeitgeschichte in Munich and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He founded the journal Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions and is on the editorial boards of Totalitarismus und Demokratie and Ethnic and Racial Studies.Michael Burleigh - Curriculum Vitae, accessed 22 March 2008.
==Affiliations==
*Standpoint magazine - Advisory Board
==Notes==
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Michael C. Gelman

Michale C. Gelman is the Chairma of The Israel Project. According to his bio on ITP's website:
:Michael C. Gelman recently completed three terms as president of The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington and one term as the President of its Endowment Fund. During his term as Federation's President, he and his team twice won the prestigious Sapir Award from United Jewish Communities for major increases in campaigns. Mr. Gelman is chairman of the United Jewish Communities Human Services and Social Policy Pillar and he chairs the UJC Birthright Committee. He was also co-chair of the 2003 General Assembly in Jerusalem. Gelman was appointed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council by President Clinton in 1995 and was a member of the Executive Committee. He has also chaired the Council's Ad Hoc Committee on Governance, Investment Committee and Development Committee. He was appointed by Maryland Governor Glendening to serve on the University System of Maryland Board of Regents. Mr. Gelman also sits on the boards of several organizations including the Jewish Agency for Israel, for which he chairs the Aliyah and Klitah Budget Subcommittee. He is president of Gelman, Rosenberg & Freedman, an accounting firm located in Bethesda, Maryland, and is a member of the Congressional Bank Board of Directors 
==Affiliations==
*The Israel Project
== Notes ==
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Michael Carver

Field Marshal Richard Michael Power Carver (1915-2001) was Chief of the General Staff from 1971 to 1973 and Chief of the Defence Staff from 1973 to 1976. He was created Baron Carver in 1977.Max Arthur, Field Marshal Lord Carver, The Independent, 12 December 2001.
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Michael Cecil

Lord Michael Cecil is a British businessman.
Cecil is the younger brother of the Seventh Marquess of Salisbury.Ben Farmer, Lord Michael Cecil sues Afghan billionaire over £250m phone deal, telegraph.co.uk, 27 May 2009.
Cecil worked with his brother Lord Valentine Cecil in the Kenyan company Wilken Telecoms.Ben Farmer, Lord Michael Cecil sues Afghan billionaire over £250m phone deal, telegraph.co.uk, 27 May 2009.
On the basis of his telecoms experience, he was recruited by Ehsan Bayat to help set up Afghan Wireless Communications Company in 1998. In May 2009, Cecil and three other partners, Stuart Bentham, Alexander Grinling and Joakim Lehmkuhl sued Bayat for shares they claimed they were entitled to:
::In a claim filed at London's High Court, they accuse Mr Bayat, his firm Telephone Systems International, AWCC, and Mark Warner, a British private banker and shareholder, of fraud, deceit, breach of contract and conspiracy.
::A spokesman for the defendants said they considered the matter already settled and would "vigorously defend" the claim.Ben Farmer, Lord Michael Cecil sues Afghan billionaire over £250m phone deal, telegraph.co.uk, 27 May 2009.
Conservative MP David Davis raised the case in the House of Commons on 28 March 2012.David Davis adjournment debate speech on foreign secret intelligence and state secrets privilege, PoliticsHome, 27 March 2012.
==Notes==
Michael Chandler

:Michael Chandler, an experienced practitioner in the fight against terrorism, is the recipient of the RMS Visiting Fellowship for Terrorism Research at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research. Mr. Chandler previously served two years as chairman of the United Nations monitoring group on Security Council sanctions on Al Qaeda. His work included monitoring the mobility, financing, and weapons acquisition of Al Qaeda, and the international efforts to prevent this activity.RMS Funds Research Fellowship at New International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research Centre Based at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS) in Singapore, Newark, Calif. – February 24, 2004
==Affiliations==
*International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, International Advisory Council
*Counterterrorism Blog Counterterrorism Blog, 'Introducing New Contributing Expert Michael Chandler By Andrew Cochran, accessed 29 May 2009
*International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security, speaker
*International Security Solutions Limited
==Notes==
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Michael Ciment

Michael Ciment is a trustee of the Yeshivas Ohel Shimon Trust, a British charity that make grants to the 'Erlau Institutions'. The Erlau is a Jewish Haredi community of Hungarian origin. Although the Charity Commission states that the charity operates in Israel, an Erlau community exists in the illegal settlement of Beitar Illit in the occupied West Bank.Beitar Illit Website Unity among the members of the municipality. Accessed 6 July 2015. B'Tselem Website Israel declares some 380 hectares in West Bank as state land. Accessed 6 July 2015.
==Notes==
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Michael Cole

Michael Cole is a PR executive and former television journalist. He joined Anglia TV as a reporter in 1967 and from 1968 to 1988 was a television correspondent at the BBC. Then he worked for a decade as Director of Public Affairs at Harrods and the House of Fraser group before leaving to set up his own company. Michael Cole & Company Ltd, Homepage [Accessed 11 April] Cole was sympathetic to Margaret Thatcher. Following a lunch at Chequers during her first term in office he commented in a letter that: 'One looks in vain in Britain for [a commentator] who will take a radical but rightwing view of events.' Stephen Bates, 'Margaret Thatcher's aversion to the BBC', Guardian, 19 March 2011.
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Michael Connarty

Michael Connarty (born 3rd September 1947) was the Labour MP for Linlithgow and East Falkirk from 2005 to 2015.
Connarty lost his seat to the SNP's Martyn Day by 12,934 votes in the May 2015 general election. BBC News Linlithgow & Falkirk East, accessed 11 May 2015.
==Pro-nuclear views==
Connarty is a strong supporter of the nuclear industry and was secretary of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Nuclear Energy.
==Publications==
* Michael Connarty, 'Must Nuclear make a Contribution?', Science in Parliament Vol 63 No 3 Summer 2006
==Affiliations==
*Industry and Parliament Trust Fellow (1994)
==Notes==
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Michael Cowdray

Michael Orland Pearson is the 4th Viscount Cowdray of the Cowdray Estate. He is a British peer and independent film producer. Hariet Dennys, 'Viscount Cowdray to convert ancestral home into luxury flats' 19 January 2014, Telegraph, accessed 20 May 2016 
He has given donations to UKIP and Vote Leave.
==Donations==
Recorded by the Electoral Commission:
Date
Name of donor
Amount
Donated to 
 
31/07/2008 
Viscount Michael Cowdray
£10,000.00
UKIP 
 
 
11/06/2012 
Viscount Michael Cowdray
£10,000.00 
UKIP 
 
 
22/10/2012 
Viscount Michael Cowdray
£5,000.00 
UKIP 
 
 
11/03/2013 
Viscount Michael Cowdray
£10,000.00 
UKIP 
 
 
27/10/2015 
Viscount Michael Cowdray
£10,000.00 
UKIP 
 
 
06/04/2016 
Viscount Michael Cowdray
£10,000.00 
Vote Leave 
 
Electoral Commission, Michael Cowdray Donation Search, accessed 20 June 2016
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Michael Craig-Cooper

Director, National Bank of Kuwait (International) Plc and other companies. Sir Michael is Advisor to Cahill International Inc and other entities. Previously, Allen and Overy, International Nickel Company of Canada Ltd, Carre Orban and Partners, and Chairman, Disciplinary Appeal Committee of Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. Member, Court of the Drapers Company (Master 1997/98), and active with many other pro bono bodies including The Royal Hospital Chelsea (Chelsea Pensioners).
Co-author with Lord Sheppard and Bain & Co partners of books on management including ‘Management Audit – the management of change’ and with Lord Lane of Horsell and Professor N. Graham Maw ‘On Corporate Governance’. Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London.http://www.w-forum.org.uk/directorscvs/
==Affilations==
*Westminster Forum, director
==Notes==
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Michael Craven

Mike Craven is a founding partner of PR and lobbying company Lexington Communications. He is a former Labour Party adviser.
==Background==
Craven is a former adviser to Labour MP John Prescott during the 1980s, and was Labour Party Chief Media Officer in 1998. He is also a former managing director of lobby firm GPC Market Access (Chief Lobbyist for British Airways (BA)) until March 1997, leaving to start Lexington Communications in 1998 with money from Lord Stevenson (their first major clients were BA). He helped to write Prescott's transport White Paper in July 1998 and was due to return to help with the 2001 election, but pulled out to avoid more 'cash for access' scandals (other clients include Novartis, the GM food company). 
Craven joined Market Access in 1988 and became its managing director in the mid-1990s. While Craven was in charge, GPC Market Access was hired by SmithKline Beecham to support the SmithKline Beecham-funded lobbying of patient interest groups, notably the Genetic Interest Group, over the proposed Directive on the Legal Protection of Biotechnological Inventions (popularly known as the Patents on Life Directive). The Directive was eventually passed after heavy lobbying and despite widespread public opposition. GPC Market Access was accused of having waged a 'massive disinformation campaign' in the process. As well as SmithKline Beecham, GPC's clients included Pfizer and Novartis. 
In 1997 Mike Craven left GPC to become Labour Party Chief Media Officer. He replaced David Hill who left to become a director of Good Relations (part of the Bell Pottinger PR group), whose clients include Monsanto.
A few months after Craven's departure, in July 1998, GPC was at the centre of the lobbygate 'cash for access' scandal. The journalist Greg Palast exposed the scandal of 'secretive business influence over policy-making', revealing how New Labour lobbyists such as Derek Draper were 'working to create a US-style interpenetration of corporations and government'. (The Best Democracy Money Can Buy) 
In November 1998 Craven was joined by 3 GPC Market Access staffers when he started up Lexington Communications. In January 2003 Craven hired Bernard Marantelli, a PR operative from Monsanto, to help Lexington in its work for the ABC in the run up to the UK Government's decision on whether to allow GM crop commercialisation.
==GM lobby clients==
Lexington's clients include Novartis and the UK biotechnology industry lobby group the Agricultural Biotechnology Council (ABC).
==Donations==
In June 2015, Craven donated £2,000 to support Liz Kendall's campaign to succeed Ed Miliband as leader of the Labour Party. Parliament.uk Liz Kendall, accessed 21 July 2015.
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Michael Cudlipp

Michael Cudlipp (1934-2004) was a British journalist and administrator.Winston Fletcher, Michael Cudlipp, theguardian.com, 30 October 2004.
He was born into a family of prominent journalists, the son of Evening Standard editor Percy Cudlipp, and the nephew of Reg and Hugh Cudlipp.Winston Fletcher, Michael Cudlipp, theguardian.com, 30 October 2004.
As a public relations consultant in the late 1970s, he worked for the Government first in Northern Ireland.Winston Fletcher, Michael Cudlipp, theguardian.com, 30 October 2004. According to Paul Foot, his appointment was a response to leaks from the Army during the Ulster Workers Council strike:
::It was to try to stop these leaks and restore some semblance of responsibility and loyalty to the government in the Army Information Service that Michael Cudlipp, a former Fleet Street journalist, was appointed to take charge of Northern Ireland information services on 25 July (two days after the leak to The Times about the auxiliary police). But Cudlipp could do little to stop it.Paul Foot, Who Framed Colin Wallace, Pan Books, 1989, p.111.
He subsequently worked at the National Enterprise Board.Winston Fletcher, Michael Cudlipp, theguardian.com, 30 October 2004.
==Connections==
*Northern Ireland Information Policy Co-ordinating Committee
 
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Michael Dickson

Michael Dickson is the Israel Director of StandWithUs International.StandWithUs International Newsletter, accessed 18 June 2009.
In June 2007, Dickson wrote to The Times in protest at trade union Unison's role in the academic boycott of Israel.Michael Dickson, Israeli Society, The Times, 22 June 2007, accessed 17 June 2009.
In a January 2009 article, Dickson described his organisation's role in creating HelpUsWin.org an online campaign in support of Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip:
::Israel's campaign against Hamas may be the world's first social war, being fought on social networks, like Facebook and Twitter, on talkbalks of leading media sites and on blogs. 
::As news of the air campaign broke, our organisation, working closely with Israeli authorities set up an Internet Task Force to lead the fight. A multilingual and web-savvy core group of around 15 bloggers and experts were brought together to co-ordinate a strategic battle for public opinion which, within days comprised thousands of activists. They are working around the clock to respond in real-time to online criticism of Israel and to help counter misinformation about the situation.Michael Dickson, The Online Frontline, totallyjewish.com, 8 January 2009.
In April 2009, Dickson took part in a protest against the presence of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad at the United Nations Durban II conference.
::With this backdrop, we staged our own opening to Durban II, a silent protest, led by student demonstrators. They walked towards the Palais Des Nations with tape over their mouths to reflect the silence of the UN on issues such as the violent oppression of women, the genocide in Darfur which claims a life every eight minutes, the suppression of students, minorities and gays in Iran - and all because of the obsessive focus on Israel.Michael Dickson, Ready for Durban II, JPost.com, 26 April 2009.
==Conferences==
*Ninth Herzliya Conference - participant.Executive Summary, 9th Herzliya Conference 2009,p.57, herzliyaconferenceorg, accessed 22 November 2012. 
==External Resources==
*Youtube, StandWithUS International work during the war on Hamas - Israeli TV interview with Michael Dickson during Operation Cast Lead.
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