2016 Ian Pyper memorial lecture
Pauline Green - Co-operatives and the state
Ian Pyper Memorial Lecture
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 article by Richard Bickle, below.
Liberty, equality, boot repairs: An obituary for Ian Pyper
