Key people

General Secretary Peter Waldorff

Peter Waldorff was elected as general secretary of Public Services International in 2007. He led the trade union for government and public employees in Denmark (HK/Stat) from 1998 to 2007.

Peter served as president of the joint collective bargaining committee of the four central organisations in the Danish state sector 2001-2007. His achievements include obtaining binding agreements for state sector employees, enabling them to develop competences and take on more demanding positions. He was also involved in the 2005 agreement to set up integration positions for immigrants and their descendants who experience difficulties accessing the labour market.

Peter’s trade union involvement started when he was a youth activist in the HK union in 1975. He became youth secretary in 1981, then collective bargaining officer in 1986. From 1992 to 1998, he was head of secretariat of the HK/State Sector. 

Peter currently serves as chair of the Council of Global Unions. 

Peter’s formal education is in the area of local government with further training in economics, languages, management and organisational development.

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President Dave Prentis

Dave Prentis has served continuous terms as general secretary of the UK public sector union UNISON since 2000. He was UNISON's deputy general secretary from its formation in 1993. In that role, Dave directed UNISON's national negotiating team and oversaw the union's policy making functions. He also drove through a strategic review of the union, aimed at delivering key reforms to bring union services closer to the members.

Dave was born and brought up in Leeds and went to the University of London where he took a bachelor of arts degree in history. This was followed by a masters degree in industrial relations at the University of Warwick.

He is a member of the TUC general council, TUC executive committee and the Trade Union Labour Party Liaison Committee.

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