Ian Pyper Memorial Lecture 2016

Pauline Green, DBE is a former Labour and Co-operative Member of the European Parliament and former Leader of the Parliamentary Group of the Party of European Socialists.  Following her re-election as an MEP in 1999, Green announced that she was retiring from politics to take up a position as the first female Chief Executive of the Co-operative Union (now Co-operatives UK), a position that she held until 2009. Her work with the organisation included sitting on and responding to the recommendations of the Co-operative Commission,facilitating the organisation's merger with the Industrial Common Ownership Movement (ICOM) and working to "secure and celebrate" the Co-operative Advantage. From 2002-2009, she was also the President of ICA Europe.

From 2009 to 2015, she was President of the International Co-operative Alliance.

Ian Pyper was chair of UKSCS and former editor of the Journal of Co-operatives Studies who died in 2010. You can find our more about Ian's contribution to the Society in the artle by Richard Bickle, below.

Previous lectures include:

2015 - Mervyn Wilson: Co-operative education - past, present, and future

2014 - A dialogue between Stella Creasy, MP and Professor Stephen Mayo, held in the House of Commons.

2013 - Ian Snaith: Local, loved, and trusted...With legal support. You can view slides from the lecture and access a podcast (MP3) via Ian's website

2012 - Dr Rachael Vorberg-Rugh: The unit of the Co-operative Movement is a woman - Putting women at the heart of the British co-operatve