University of Leeds

University of Leeds   (University)
Motto	Latin: Et augebitur scientia
Headquarters	Leeds, England
Type	•  Public •  research
5th largest university in the UK

The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1874 as the Yorkshire College of Science. In 1884 it merged with the Leeds School of Medicine (established 1831) and was renamed Yorkshire College. It became part of the federal Victoria University in 1887, joining Owens College (which became the University of Manchester) and University College Liverpool (which became the University of Liverpool). In 1904 a royal charter was granted to the University of Leeds by King Edward VII.

The university has s 36,330 students,the 5th largest university in the UK (out of 169).

 

Employee on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End
Asa Briggs	Professor of modern history	1955	1961

 

Alumni on Wikispooks

Person	Born	Died	Nationality	Summary	Description
Jamal Al-Tahat			Jordan	Journalist	Senior fellow of the Institute for Statecraft who was paid £1000 for setting up Integrity Jordan.
Farhad Azima				Engineer Businessperson
Hubert Brasier	20 August 1917	12 October 1981			Father of Theresa May, died in a car crash
Nicola Brewer			UK	Diplomat	British diplomat and university administrator
Oliver Coppard	1981		UK	Politician	The first Jewish metro mayor in England; a supporter of 15-minute cities
Nick Cull	1964		UK	Propaganda expert
Constance Cunningham				Propagandist	Institute for Statecraft, Active Change Foundation
Michael Christopher Daly	October 1953		UK	Geologist	British geologist and oil and gas executive With BP. Secured BP's return to Iraq after the 2003 invasion.
Stephen Dalziel	September 1957		UK	Soldier Propagandist Deep state operative	Spokesman for the Institute for Statecraft and "Research and Staff Coordinator" of the Integrity Initiative with "Forty years of dealing with Russia"... “Definitely not secret service, I promise you.” Russo-British Chamber of Commerce director
Ian Dyson	26 October 1960		UK	Police officer Accountant Businessperson	Commissioner of the City of London Police.
Hage Geingob	3 August 1941	4 February 2024		Politician	Namibian politician, served as president and prime minister
Ángel Gurría	8 May 1950		Mexico	Economist	Former Secretary-General of the OECD. Member of Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum. Part of the “prefiguration group” of the Forum on Information & Democracy a planned international censorship treaty
Tracy Keeling				Journalist	Writer for The Canary.
David Kelly	14 May 1944	17 July 2003	UK	Whistleblower Spook Bioweapons developer	Dr David Kelly, a biological weapons expert who died in highly suspicious circumstances
Jean-Louis Lafayeedney	January 1980		UK	Financier Deep state functionary	Retired director of the Institute For Statecraft. Financier
Christopher Leslie	28 June 1972				Labour MP who quit and joined Change UK in protest at the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn
Roderic Lyne	31 March 1948		UK		Senior UK diplomat
Shiraz Maher	12 July 1981		UK	Academic "Terror expert"	UK writer and commentator on "radicalisation" who attended the 2015 Bilderberg. Reported in March 2020 that he had a tough time recovering from a mild case of COVID-19.
Alex Mayer	2 June 1981
Richard Millett				Journalist Lawyer Blogger
Andrew Mills	August 1963			Businessperson
Dennis Prager	2 August 1948		US	Talk show Conservatism	American conservative radio talk show host, founder of PragerU.
Usha Prashar	29 June 1948
Rory Ridley-Duff			UK	Author Academic Songwriter
Steve Rosenberg	5 April 1968			TV presenter
Alison Saunders	14 February 1961		UK	Lawyer	Despite the collapse of an unprecedented number of abuse cases during her tenure as Director of Public Prosecutions, she still insisted she had done a good job. Let Greville Janner go.
Clare Short	15 February 1946			Politician	Resigned as International Development Secretary after being misled by Tony Blair over the 2003 Iraq War
Alyn Smith	15 September 1973			Politician	Scottish SNP politician. Member of Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.
Keir Starmer	2 September 1962		UK	Politician Lawyer Puppet leader Deep state operative	A suspected deep state operative, who as Director of Public Prosecutions failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile but pressed on with charges against Julian Assange.
Jack Straw	3 August 1946
Jon Trickett	2 July 1950			Politician
Mark Tucker	29 December 1957		UK	Financier Accountant Businessperson	businessman/banker Bilderberger
Fergus Walsh	1961		UK	Propagandist	BBC News Medical Editor despite having no medical qualifications. Also has huge conflict of interest, as wife is Big Pharma manager.
Sayeeda Warsi	28 March 1971			Politician Lawyer

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