Fabian Hamilton MP elected BGIPU Chair alongside 2024/25 Executive Committee
At its AGM on 13 November 2024 chaired by the Speaker of the House of Commons, Rt Hon Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP, BGIPU members comprising members of both the House of Commons and the House of Lords in UK Parliament elected new BGIPU Officers and Executive Committee members for 2024/25 based on nominations received in advance. The Member of Parliament for Leeds North East, Fabian Hamilton MP was elected BGIPU Chair unopposed and in taking up the role delivered a speech where he said “It’s a privilege to have been elected Chair of BGIPU. We must ensure that our engagement is grounded in the realities of the challenges facing people across the world. Growing instability, division, and disinformation put the stability of our democratic institutions at risk”.
Fabian Hamilton was first elected as the Labour Member of Parliament for Leeds North East in 1997. In Parliament, Fabian has served as member of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee and Transport Select Committee following his time as the Labour Party’s Shadow Minister for Peace and Disarmament, Latin America and the Caribbean. Since his election to Parliament, Fabian has championed multilateral disarmament and international peacebuilding alongside sustainable and reliable public and active travel.
Alongside regional responsibilities in Latin America and the Caribbean, Fabian has been responsible for Labour Party policy on arms control, the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, conflict prevention and the UK’s soft power. He is married with three children and two grandchildren and is a keen cyclist and amateur photographer.
Mr Hamilton was previously BGIPU Treasurer from 2014-2016 and has attended three UN/IPU Parliamentary Hearings at UN HQ in New York as well being a member of the UK delegation to the recent 149th IPU Assembly in Geneva in October 2024. In bilateral activity with BGIPU, Mr Hamilton has participated in outward delegation visits to Brazil, Iraq and Croatia as well as supporting many incoming visits to the Palace of Westminster, including meeting delegations from Dominican Republic, Croatia, Colombia, Ukraine, Lebanon, Slovakia, Angola, Liberia, Estonia, Türkiye, Poland, Nepal and Iceland in the last eight years alone.
Fabian Hamilton has been the elected MP for Leeds North east since 1997
In being elected to the role as BGIPU Chair, Mr Hamilton said "growing instability, division, and disinformation put the stability of our democratic institutions at risk".
