Darren Johnson
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- For the U.S. politician, see Darren Johnson (New York).
Darren (Paul) Johnson (born 1966) is a UK Green politician, and member of the London Assembly and Lewisham Council.
Johnson is currently chair of the London Assembly's Environment Committee, Lewisham Council's Sustainable Development Select Committee and Proud Heritage—a project to promote understanding of the history of the LGBT community through museums, libraries and the Internet. He is also leader of the six-strong Green group on Lewisham's borough council, vice president of the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association and a member of the advisory board to Envirowork Lewisham (which provides training to the unemployed within open space community projects).
He lives in Brockley with his long-term partner and fellow borough councillor, Dean Walton, who works as a tax inspector.
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[edit] History
Darren Johnson joined the Green Party in 1987 at the age of 20 [1]. In 1994 [2], he graduated from Goldsmith's College, University of London, with a first-class degree in politics and economics [3]. He was one of the principal speakers for the Green Party of England and Wales in 2002 [4] and their candidate for Mayor of London in 2000 and 2004.
In May 2000, he was elected to the London Assembly, to which he was re-elected in 2004.
In May 2002, he was elected as a councillor representing Brockley ward in the London Borough of Lewisham and was re-elected in 2006, when the Green Party gained a further five seats on Lewisham Council. In the 2005 general election, Johnson, who was backed by the Fire Brigade Union (after being the only AM to vote against cuts in the brigade), received 11.5% of the vote as the parliamentary candidate for Lewisham Deptford. In 2006, he stood for the position of Mayor of Lewisham but seems to have abandoned the contest as his name does not appears in the result table published by the Council.
[edit] Committees
Johnson is currently a member of numerous political committees, including:
[edit] Greater London Authority
- The London Assembly's Health and Public Services Committee
- The assembly's Environment Committee [Chair]
- The assembly's Transport Committee
- The Commission on London Governance
- The London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority
- The 7th July Review (London Resilience) Committee
[edit] Lewisham Council
- The Sustainable Development Select Committee [Chair]
- The Elections Committee
- The Licensing (Supplementary) Committee
- The Licensing Committee
- The Marsha Phoenix Memorial Trust
- The Overview and Scrutiny (Education) Business Panel
- The Overview and Scrutiny Business Panel
- The Overview and Scrutiny Committee
[edit] Local Government Association
- The General Assembly [on behalf of Lewisham Council]
[edit] External links
- London Assembly biography
- Green Party biography
- 2000 critique by Mayor-of-London.Com
- Lewisham Council contact page
