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Fellowship Forum

Lord Hay

Fellowship Forum
Lord Hay was a founding member of the DUP and served for many years as Chairman of his local Londonderry association, and has been an Executive member of the party for many years.
He was first elected to Londonderry City Council in 1981 and served as Deputy Lord Mayor from 1992 to 1993, and Mayor of the City from 1993 to 1994. In 1998, he was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly and became Speaker in 2007 following the restoration of devolution. Lord Hay continues to take a keen interest in local community issues and became a Life Peer in 2014.

Baroness Goudie

Fellowship Forum
Baroness Goudie is a member of the British House of Lords and a global advocate for the rights of women and children.
She works globally to promote gender equality, women’s rights, and peacebuilding, including being an advisor to the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, as well as sitting on the advisory board of the London School of Economics’ Centre for Women, Peace and Security. Baroness Goudie is also a member of the Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS) Management Board of Advisors. She is a trustee of the El-Hibri Charitable Foundation, which fosters interfaith dialogue and establishes common ground and solutions to global challenges affecting humankind. She was a member of the Select Committee on Sexual Violence in Conflict, a task force appointed to consider the UK’s policy and practice for preventing sexual violence in conflict, and is currently a member of the Finance Committee for the House of Lords.

Baroness Ritchie

Fellowship Forum
Baroness Ritchie has been a Labour member of the House of Lords since 2019 and was the first female leader of the SDLP (2010 to 2011).
She is the former MP for the constituency of South Down, where she served from 2010 to 2017, and is a former member of the Northern Ireland Assembly from 2003 to 2012. Baroness Ritchie has extensive political interests, which include health, the environment, Europe, young people, and the economy. She is the former Minister for Social Development, serving on the Northern Ireland Executive between 2007 and 2010. As Minister, her responsibilities included housing, urban regeneration, community development, child support, and the Social Security Agency.

Lord Alderdice

Chairman Emeritus / Fellowship Forum
A Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords since 1996, Lord Alderdice is a member of the Select Committee of the House of Lords on International Relations and Defence. He is also the UK Government’s Trade Envoy to Azerbaijan and Central Asia.
As leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, Alderdice played a significant role in the talks on Northern Ireland, including negotiation of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, and was appointed the first Speaker of the new Northern Ireland Assembly. Formerly a consultant psychiatrist and senior lecturer in Psychotherapy at Queen’s University Belfast, Alderdice is currently a Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford. His research interests include the individual and group psychology of violent political conflict and the psychology of religious fundamentalism. He travels extensively to speak, consult, negotiate, and work on the resolution of violent political conflict in various parts of the world, with a particular focus on the Middle East. We are delighted that Lord Alderdice, following his retirement from the Centre for Democracy and Peace Board of Directors, has accepted the honorary role of Chairman Emeritus and will continue to provide valuable strategic advice and guidance to the Centre.