Steve Bullock is the first directly elected Mayor of
Lewisham. Immediately prior to his election in 2002 he was
serving a second term as chair of University Hospital
Lewisham. Steve has experience in both Local Government and
the NHS and tries to use the knowledge and skills acquired in
both to develop partnership working across the public sector.
He chairs London Connects - the partnership group promoting E
government across London's public sector. On the national
stage is chair of the Local Government Employers
Organisation.
Steve's career in local government started in
the summer of 1972 when he worked as a van driver for an Urban
District Council in North Yorkshire. He later worked for the
Greater London Council and the Local Government Association.
He became a councillor in Lewisham in 1982 and went on to serve as
Chair of Finance, Chair of Leisure, Deputy Leader, and Leader of
the Council prior to standing down in 1998.
He
served as a member of the Commission for Local Democracy and was a
key figure in the establishment of the New Local Government
Network. The influence of these two bodies on the Local
Government Act, 2000 led to the creation of directly elected Mayors
for the first time in the UK. In 2001 Steve returned to
active local politics to seek office as Mayor of Lewisham.
He was knighted in June 2007.
He has served as non-executive director of the
Housing Ombudsman Service and the London Pension Fund
Authority. He lives in Forest Hill with his wife, Kris, and
is particularly proud to be a trustee of the Horniman
Museum and Garden in Forest Hill - one of London's great
treasures.
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