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Brian Kevin Wernham FBCS FAPM CEng CITP, born 1961 (age 62–63) is a British politician, engineer, and project management author. He has served as a Liberal Democrat councillor for the Stanwix Urban ward on Cumberland Council since 2022, and is the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Carlisle for the next United Kingdom general election..[1]
Early life and education edit
Wernham was born on in 1961 in Hampton, Middlesex, England. He was educated at Latymer Upper School, at the time an independent direct grant grammar school in London.[2] He studied mechanical engineering at the University of Surrey graduating with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree. He then started work but undertook an MBA at was then called Henley Management College part-time. Later, he studied African History part time at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) graduating with a MA degree from the University of London in 2014. His thesis was titled "Riot! The Nature and Context of Violence in the Bukedi Disturbances of January 1960".[3]
Having studied at the University of Surrey, Wernham worked as an engineer at British Aerospace building Harrier Jump Jets (1979 - 1981) and then as an consultant IT engineer. He authored and edited several project management best practice guides for the Association for Project Management[4] and wrote a text book on Agile Project Management.[5] As an expert on project management was quoted in the press[6] and interviewed on national radio and TV news.[7] He was an audit manager at the National Audit Office producing reports for the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee[8]. He was a Trustee Director of the Association for Project Management between 2014 and 2019[9]
Political career edit
Wernham won the local election to be the sole councillor for the Stanwix Urban Ward in the 2022 Cumberland Council election for the new Cumberland unitary authority, with 1,472 votes as the Liberal Democrat candidate - the highest number of votes in any of the 46 wards.[10] The ward had been Conservative for at least 49 years.[11] He has been selected as the Parliamentary Candidate for Carlisle for the Liberal Democrats in the 2024 General Election.[12][13]
- ^ Rawlinson, Ollie (16 November 2023). "Carlisle MP challenged on NHS waiting lists and dental crisis". News and Star. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
- ^ "News of Latymerians". The Latymerian: 7. September 2012 – via ISSU.
- ^ West, Stuart (February 2012). "Policing, Colonial Life and Decolonisation in Uganda,1957-1960" (PDF). Open University. Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies. p. 23. Retrieved November 20, 2023.
- ^ Directing Change (PDF) (2nd ed.). Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire: Association for Project Management. 2011. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-903494-19-6.
- ^ Wernham, Brian (2012). Agile Project Management for Government: Leadership skills for implementation of large-scale public sector projects in months, not years. London: Maitland and Strong. ISBN 978-0957223400.
- ^ Wernham, Brian (August 17, 2014). "Universal credit: a simple idea 'fiendishly complicated' to deliver". The Observer. London. Retrieved November 20, 2023.
- ^ "BBC TV News Interview - Brian Wernham analyses NAO report on £425m Universal Credit Programme…". Brian Wernham. September 10, 2013. Retrieved November 20, 2023.
- ^ Digital Britain One (PDF). London: National Audit Office. 2011. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-10-297687-8.
- ^ Annual Report (PDF). Association for Project Management. 2016. p. 1.
- ^ "Cumberland Council election - 5 May 2022". Cumberland Council. May 6, 2022. Retrieved November 20, 2023.
- ^ "Cumbria County Council Election Results 1973-2009" (PDF). The Elections Centre. Oxford: Nuffield College. June 2015. p. 3. Retrieved November 20, 2023.
- ^ Cooper, Isaac (September 1, 2023). "Cllr Brian Wernham selected as Liberal Democrat candidate for Carlisle". News and Star.
- ^ "Candidates". North West Liberal Democrats. Retrieved November 20, 2023.