Professor Brian Brivati
Professor Brivati began his Directorship of the Trust in January 2008.
He was previously a professor of contemporary history at Kingston University and ran their human rights programmes at BA and MA level. He was recently a member of the “Iraq Commission,” a panel of leading Ministers, MPs and thinkers who came together in the Houses of Parliament at the end of April 2007 to discuss the future of humanitarian intervention after the conflict in Iraq.
He has published extensive work on contemporary British politics with an emphasis on the political history of the British Labour party. Among these is “Guiding Light,” a collection of the speeches of John Smith, published in 2001. He is greatly respected as a commentator and regular broadcaster on political history.
His research and teaching has recently extended to comparative work on genocide and human rights. His articles have appeared in the Guardian, the Times, the Financial Times, the Independent on Sunday, the Observer, the New Statesman, Progress, the Fabian Review and Parliamentary Brief.
His most recent book, “The End of Decline: the Blair-Brown Governments and Contemporary British History,” was published by Politico's (September 2007).