David Triesman, Baron Triesman

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David Maxim Triesman, Baron Triesman (born 30 October 1943) is a Labour member of the House of Lords.

Triesman was educated at the Stationers' Company School, London, the University of Essex and King's College, Cambridge.

Mr Triesman's radicalism saw him suspended from Essex in 1968 after breaking up a meeting addressed by a defence industry scientist. A strike by fellow students forced the university to reinstate him. He resigned the Labour Party in 1970, having joined in 1960 when he was 17. In 1970 he joined the Communist Party and he stayed in that party until the winter of 1976/1977, then rejoined the Labour party in 1977.

He was a lecturer and has become a visiting fellow at Cambridge once again in recent years.

David Triesman first became a full-time union official at NATFHE in 1984. He became the General Secretary of the Association of University Teachers trade union from 1993 to 2001 and the General Secretary of the Labour Party 2001 to 2003. He was made a Life Peer in January 2004 as Baron Triesman, of Tottenham in the London Borough of Haringey.

Lord Triesman is currently the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, with responsibility for: relations with Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Overseas Territories, the Commonwealth, UK visas, migration policy, consular policy, the British Council, the BBC World Service and the Chevening Scholarships Scheme.

Political offices
Preceded by Margaret McDonagh	General Secretary of the Labour Party 2001–2003	Succeeded by Matt Carter
Preceded by Bill Rammell	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State 2005–Present	Succeeded by (current incumbent)