Robin Wales

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name=Sir Robin Wales
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office= Mayor of Newham
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predecessor = New Office
successor =Incumbent
party = Labour
website = [http://mayor.newham.gov.uk mayor.newham.gov.uk]

Sir Robin Wales is a Labour Party politician and current Mayor of the London Borough of Newham

Wales comes from Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland, and was educated at the University of Glasgow where he was chair of the Glasgow University Labour Club. He formerly worked at British Telecom.

Having moved to London in 1978, Wales was a councillor from 1982 to 1986 and then from 1992 to 2002 in the London Borough of Newham. He was elected Mayor of Newham in 2002, after seven years as leader, the first Labour directly-elected Mayor in the country. He was re-elected in 2006. He is often described as New Labour through and through.

Wales was Chair of the Association of London Government from 2000 until the 2006 council elections when Labour when he was replaced by Conservative Merrick Cockell.

He currently sits on the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games.

He was awarded a Knighthood in the 2000 Birthday Honours List in recognition of his service to local government. He has two children.

External links

* [http://mayor.newham.gov.uk Newham Mayor website]
* [http://mayor.newham.gov.uk/Biography Official biography]