Owen Tudor is the former Deputy General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) representing 200 million trade union members worldwide, and is Secretary of the Commonwealth Trade Union Group, as well as chair of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, a member of the Independent Forum of Commonwealth Organisations steering committee and the Council of the Commonwealth Round Table editorial board. In the UK, he chairs the Fenland Labour Party and is a member of the National Council of the Labour Movement for Europe. His wife is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge (now the only women’s college) and their son is a chef.
At the ITUC, he worked with the IPB and the Olof Palme International Centre, on common security as well as health and safety at work, the pan-european regional council and the asia-pacific region. Previously, during 34 years at the British Trades Union Congress, he worked on education and training policy, social security, disability, health and safety at work and for the last 15 years, was on the TUC management committee, as Head of the European Union and International Relations Department that covered migration, trade and international development. Over his career at the TUC, he represented the trade union movement on many public bodies such as the Health and Safety Commission and the Social Security Advisory Committee, as well as serving on EU health and safety committees, taking part in the European Trade Union Confederation executive and steering committees and the ITUC general council.
