Jules Pipe
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Jules Pipe is the first directly-elected Mayor of the London Borough of Hackney since his election in October 2002.
He worked as a journalist until taking on the full-time position as Mayor.
Pipe was elected as a Labour party councillor in Stoke Newington in 1996, later representing the King’s Park ward in eastern Hackney. He has been re-elected in May 2006 and his is current term expires in 2010. He was Leader of Hackney Council from June 2001 to October 2002.