Jim Mowatt - Nomination
Director of Education - Unite the Union
Jim is currently the Director of Education for “UNITE” the UK’s and Ireland biggest trade union.
From a Clydeside engineering background, Jim studied Economics before lecturing at the Institute of Extension Studies at Liverpool University. A spell with the TUC covered the “Winter of Discontent”.
In his own Union, Jim has represented the T&G at all levels. Signing the first ever table Agreement in privatised Utilities; the first single Union deal in the Steel Industry and led for all Unions in the chemical, oil and pharmaceutical sectors in the UK, Ireland and Europe.
He was with the previous Deputy Prime Ministerial mission to India and was instrumental in setting up Health & Safety procedures in the Bulgarian Nuclear Industry and has lectured extensively on the Management of Change in America. Jim has accompanied the Foreign Secretary in South Africa and worked with the British Council in Zimbabwe.
Jim chaired the first ever Windsor Leadership Trust meeting in St George’s House, Windsor Castle and contributed for over a decade to the Runge Management Course at Balliol College Oxford.
