Education
Lishman graduated in economics and political science from the University of Manchester in 1968.
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Gordon Lishman
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Together with Tony Greaves, Lishman moved the Liberal Party"s Community Politics motion in 1970. In 1980, he co-wrote The Theory and Practice of Community Politics with Bernard Greaves. He was the Liberal Party Parliamentary Candidate for Bradford North in the February 1974 and October 1974 General Elections, and for Pendle in the 1983 and 1987 General Elections.
Lishman joined Age Concern England in 1974, becoming Director General of the charity in 2000.
He left in 2009, after the charity had lost £22 million on the Heyday project, having led the charity through to its merger with Help the Aged, to form a new charity, Age United Kingdom. He was awarded an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1993 and the Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours 2006 for services to older people. Lishman was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the University of Central Lancashire in 2002.
In 2007, he was asked by Ivan Lewis to chair the Department of Health’s Nutrition Action Plan Delivery Board.
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The Liberal Party