Peter Luff (campaigner)
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Peter John Roussel Luff, Chairman of the European Movement UK
European Movement UK
The European Movement UK is an independent pressure group in the United Kingdom which campaigns in support of greater European integration and for reform of the European Union. It is part of the European Movement International....

, and director of Action for a Global Climate Community; formerly Director of the Royal Commonwealth Society
Royal Commonwealth Society
The Royal Commonwealth Society is an international educational charity and a private members' club. Its mission is to support and promote the modern Commonwealth, its culture and core values...

 (1997–2001); Director of The European Movement UK and Vice Chair, The International European Movement
European Movement
The European Movement International is a lobbying association that coordinates the efforts of associations and national councils with the goal of promoting European integration, and disseminating information about it.-History:...

 (1986–1995) Funding and Marketing Director of the Social Democratic Party
Social Democratic Party (UK)
The Social Democratic Party was a political party in the United Kingdom that was created on 26 March 1981 and existed until 1988. It was founded by four senior Labour Party 'moderates', dubbed the 'Gang of Four': Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams...

 (1981–1987) and Assistant Director of Amnesty International
Amnesty International
Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation whose stated mission is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."Following a publication of Peter Benenson's...

 UK (1974–1978)

Personal life

He was born in Brussels 14 September 1946, educated at Eltham College and Swansea University where he graduated in politics and international relations. He married Carolyn Luff in 1969 and has four children.

Career

His first post was with the Voluntary Committee on Overseas Aid and Development and subsequently as a Counsellor with the UK Immigrants Advisory Service. He was appointed Assistant Director of Amnesty International U in 1974, where he directed several country campaigns and organised the first UK Trades Union Human Rights conference. With John Cleese
John Cleese
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, he originated an produced ‘A Poke in the Eye’ and ‘The Mermaids Frolics’, the first two shows in The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979)
The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979)
The Secret Policeman's Ball took place over four consecutive nights in London in June 1979. It was a successor to the 1976 show A Poke In The Eye and the 1977 show The Mermaid Frolics.The show was directed by Monty Python alumnus John Cleese and producers Martin Lewis and Peter Walker...

 comedy series with a cast including Monty Python
Monty Python
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, Beyond the Fringe
Beyond the Fringe
Beyond the Fringe was a British comedy stage revue written and performed by Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, and Jonathan Miller. It played in London's West End and then on New York's Broadway in the early 1960s, and is widely regarded as seminal to the rise of satire in 1960s Britain.-The...

, the Goodies
The Goodies
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, Eleanor Bron
Eleanor Bron
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, John Bird
John Bird
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 and John Fortune
John Fortune
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, Sir Peter Ustinov, Barry Humphries
Barry Humphries
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 and John Williams
John Williams
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In 2002, he co-produced, with Caroline Warner, another comedy revue – ‘Peter Cook: a Posthumorous Tribute’ for The Peter Cook
Peter Cook
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 Foundation with a cast including Sir David Frost, Terry Jones
Terry Jones
Terence Graham Parry Jones is a Welsh comedian, screenwriter, actor, film director, children's author, popular historian, political commentator, and TV documentary host. He is best known as a member of the Monty Python comedy team....

, Michael Palin
Michael Palin
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, Dilly Keane, Sandy Tostvig, Griff Rhys Jones
Griff Rhys Jones
Griffith "Griff" Rhys Jones is a Welsh comedian, writer, actor, television presenter and personality. Jones came to national attention in the early 1980s for his work in the BBC television comedy sketch shows Not the Nine O'Clock News and Alas Smith and Jones along with his comedy partner Mel Smith...

, Clive Anderson
Clive Anderson
Clive Anderson is a British former barrister, best known for being a comedy writer as well as a radio and television presenter in the United Kingdom...

, Jimmy Carr
Jimmy Carr
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, Angus Deayton
Angus Deayton
Gordon Angus Deayton is an English actor, writer, musician, comedian and broadcaster. He is best known for his role as Victor Meldrew's long-suffering neighbour Patrick Trench in the comedy series One Foot in the Grave...

, David Baddiel
David Baddiel
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, Jonathan Ross
Jonathan Ross
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, Josie Lawrence
Josie Lawrence
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, Bonnie Langford
Bonnie Langford
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 and Mark Watson
Mark Watson (comedian)
Mark Andrew Watson is an English stand-up comedian and novelist.-Early life:Watson was born in Bristol to Welsh parents and attended Henleaze Junior school and then Bristol Grammar School, where he won the prize of 'Gabbler of the year', before going to Queens' College, Cambridge, where he studied...

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He was an assistant producer on the series Prisoners of Conscience at the BBC
BBC
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 (1979–1981). Until 2001, Peter Luff was Director of the Royal Commonwealth Society , a pan-Commonwealth non-governmental organisation, supported by a worldwide membership, working to inform and educate people in all 54 member states about the work and importance of the Commonwealth.

He has written three books: The Simple Guide to Maastricht, The Reform of the United Nations with Georges Berthoin and A Brilliant Conspiracy – a study of the European federal agenda and a pamphlet. He has broadcast regularly on television and radio news and discussion programmes and has been a panellist on the BBC’s Any Questions and Question Time programmes.

Peter Luff is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts & Manufacturers and the Royal Geographical Society; a member of the Royal Institute for International Affairs and is a former Trustee of Responding to Conflict
Responding to Conflict
Responding to Conflict is a non-governmental organisation based in Birmingham, England. RTC strives to provide training, advice, and support to people working for peace and human rights in areas affected by war or violent conflict. RTC has assisted both grass-roots activists and governmental...

 and the European Multicultural Foundation, and on the International Council of The World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy
World Federalist Movement
The World Federalist Movement is a global citizens movement with member and associate organizations around the world. The WFM International Secretariat is based in New York City across from the United Nations headquarters...

. He is also a member of the executive committee of Chelsea: arts festival.

AGCC

Action for a Global Climate Community; A new initiative led by the European Union and India that aims to unite a group of countries – north and south – in a
commitment to reduce their carbon emissions further and faster than existing Kyoto obligations.

European Movement

The European Movement is Britain's pro-European campaigning organisation. It argues that the European Union should become more democratic, effective and accountable, and that Britain should play a full role in reforming and developing the EU. The current President of the European Movement UK is Rt Hon Charles Kennedy
Charles Kennedy
Charles Peter Kennedy is a British Liberal Democrat politician, who led the Liberal Democrats from 9 August 1999 until 7 January 2006 and is currently a Member of Parliament for the Ross, Skye and Lochaber constituency....

MP and the current chairman is Peter Luff.
The European Movement is independent of the British Government, from political parties, or from the European Union or any of its institutions.
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