Education
Born near Grimsby, Carter studied at Sheffield University and the University of York, and has a Doctor of Philosophy in Political History.
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He subsequently held a number of jobs in the Labour Party, including head of policy, local organiser for Teesside and Durham and regional organiser in South West England during the 2001 general election. Matt Carter is Labour’s youngest General Secretary, appointed to the job aged 31 in December 2003. He took up office on 1 January 2004 succeeding David Triesman, and announced his resignation on 6 September 2005, following the 2005 general election victory.
In January 2010 Carter became Chief Executive Officer of B-M United Kingdom, a leading public relations and communications consultancy, part of Young & Rubicam Brands, a subsidiary of WPP. He set up and ran the Europe Middle East and Africa (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) office of Penn, Schoen and Berland.
In 2013 he founded Message House, a communications consultancy. Matt Carter married Erica Moffitt in 1997 and has three children.
Politics
Carter was tutor in the Department of Politics at the University of York from 1994. As Assistant General Secretary, he set up Forethought, a policy think tank within the Party. Carter has written The People"s Party: the History of the Labour Party with Tony Wright (1997) and Territory of Hawaii Green and the Development of Ethical Socialism (2003).
Membership
In 1997, Carter was a member of Labour"s National Policy Forum and parliamentary candidate for the Vale of New York
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