Lord Haskins Biography
Christopher Haskins was born in 1937 in Dublin Ireland.
He was educated at Trinity College Dublin and took an Honours degree in Modern History.
He worked for Northern Foods from 1962 until 2002, becoming a director in 1967, Deputy Chairman in 1974 and Chairman in 1986 until he retired in February 2002.
He became a life peer, a member of the House of Lords, in 1998.
He has worked for both the British and the Irish governments on a number of projects. He was a member of the Culliton Irish Industrial Policy Review group in 1991, which produced the blueprint for the successful Irish economy of recent years.
Other positions held include:
1992 - 1994,
Member of the Commission for Social Justice from
1195 - 2002
Member of the UK Round Table on Sustainable Development
1997 - 2002
Chairman of the UK Government’s Better Regulation Task Force
1998 -
Director of the Yorkshire Regional Development Agency
1997 - 2001
Member of the government’s New Deal Task Force
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19 May, 2005
Page published: 10 December, 2002