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William Brian Jordan, Baron Jordan, CBE FRSA (born 28 January 1936), known as Bill Jordan, is a British economist and Labour politician.

The son of Walter and Alice Jordan, he was educated at the Barford Road Secondary Modern School in Birmingham.

Jordan was President of the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU), and then its successor, the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union (AEEU), from 1986 to 1994. During the same time, he was a member of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) General Council. In 1995, he became General Secretary of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), a post he held until 2002.

He was also a long-serving governor of the London School of Economics from 1987 to 2002, and of the BBC from 1988 to 1998.

Jordan was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1992 New Year Honours, and was created a life peer with the title Baron Jordan, of Bournville in the County of West Midlands, on 5 June 2000.

Since 1958, Lord Jordan has been married to Jean Ann Livesey; they have three daughters, nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

References

"DodOnline". Archived from the original on 7 October 2006. Retrieved 3 November 2006.

Trade union offices
Preceded byTerry Duffy	President of the Amalgamated Engineering Union 1986–1992	Position abolished
New post	President of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union 1992–1994 With: Ken Jackson (1992–1994)	Succeeded byJohn Weakley
Preceded byEnzo Friso	General Secretary of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions 1995–2002	Succeeded byGuy Ryder
Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom
Preceded byThe Lord Coe	Gentlemen Baron Jordan	Followed byThe Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts

v t e International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
General secretaries	1949: Jacobus Hendrik Oldenbroek 1960: Omer Becu 1967: Harm Buiter 1972: Otto Kersten 1982: John Vanderveken 1992: Enzo Friso 1995: Bill Jordan 2002: Guy Ryder
Assistant general secretaries	1952: Hans Gottfurcht 1960: Alfred Braunthal, Stefan Nędzyński and Herbert A. Tulatz 1967: Morris Paladino 1972: Heribert Maier 1974: John Vanderveken 1984: Enzo Friso 1993: Eddy Laurijssen 2002: Zé Olívio
Presidents	1949: Paul Finet 1951: Vincent Tewson 1953: Omer Becu 1957: Arne Geijer 1965: Bruno Storti 1972: Donald MacDonald 1975: P. P. Narayanan 1992: Roy Trotman 2000: Fackson Shamenda 2004: Sharan Burrow
Regional organisations	APRO: Asia Pacific AFRO: Africa ERO: Europe ORIT: Americas
Allied organisations	International Trade Secretariats (ITSs) Bureau of Workers Activities of the ILO (ILO-ACTRAV) Socialist International

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