National Officers

The President, Vice-President and Honorary General Treasurer are members who volunteer for election and are known collectively as the national officers. Members standing for election as President and Vice- President have to be members of the NEC.

Current national officers (2014-2016)

Joint-presidents

Adam Christie and Andy Smith (job-share)

Adam represents the Yorkshire, Humber & NE England on NEC and the Y&H region on the freelance industrial council. He has produced the annual Freelance Market Monitor for the council and updated the Freelance Fact Pack. He has worked as a sub on the Yorkshire Post, produces a regional magazine for the TUC's unionlearn section and works with several non-profit organisations. He has a backgound that includes corporate communications, PR and health education and has written books on the organisational implications of HIV/Aids and letter-writing. He worked regularly on Ceefex regional pages for the BBC in Leeds, then BBC Online - until budget cuts got him. As editor of the Leeds branch newsletter for many years, he said: "Chasing stories and envelope-stuffing has given me a unique view of changes in journalism, seeing where the jobs are and who has them."

Andy represents the book sector of the union on the NEC. Born and brought up in Bristol, Andy graduated from Hatfield Polytechnic in 1989 with a degree in mathematics and physics. He started at Taylor & Francis academic publishers as a journals production editor in 1990 and has worked freelance and in house, editing academic journals, principally covering physics and chemistry, including eight years at John Wiley in Chichester. Andy has been active in the NUJ since his time at T&F, including terms on the NEC from 1999.

Adam and Andy were elected unopposed as president (job-share) at the Delegate Meeting 2014 in Eastbourne.

Vice-president

Tim Dawson represents freelances on the NEC and chairs the Freelance Industrial Council. Professionally he is a reporter and feature writer whose work has appeared in The Sunday Times for the past 15 years.

He is a former Scotland correspondent for the New Statesman and reporter for the US magazine People Weekly. He edits a cycling books website, co-edits the new model journalism website and teaches the NUJ professional training course Making Internet Journalism Pay.

He was elected at the Delegate Meeting in Eastbourne 2014.

Honorary General Treasurer

John Barsby represents East Anglia on the NEC. NUJ Member of Honour, former president and long-serving member of the NEC, John has chaired Finance Committee for several years and has been the longest-serving chair of the Broadcasting Industrial Council, of which he is now vice-chair. Much of his work is involved in BBC negotiations and representing members in regional television and local radio. He also chairs the European Federation of Journalists' Broadcasting Experts Group (BREG).

John was elected as the union's Honorary General Treasurer at the Delegate Meeting 2014 in Eastbourne.

List of former presidents

Name	Venue	Elected Year/s
R C Spencer	Birmingham	1907-09
G H Lethem	Leeds	1908-11
J H Hartley	Birmingham	1911-13
W T A Beare	Manchester	1913-14
F E Hamer	Liverpool	1914-16
E Williams	Glasgow	1916-17
A Martin	Manchester	1917-18
F Mansfield	Leicester	1918-19
J Haslam	London	1991-20
J E Brown	Cardiff	1920-21
T Jay	Newcastle	1921-22
T A Davies	Nottingham	1922-23
W Meakin	Portsmouth	1923-24
T K Sledge	Southport	1924-25
T S Dickson	Birmingham	1925-26
A J Rhodes	Edinburgh	1926-27
H A Raybould	Plymouth	1927-28
F W Bill	London	1928-29
H D Nichols	Cheltenham	1929-30
W G Mitchell	Manchester	1930-31
W Betts	Leamington	1931-32
J G Gregson	Harrogate	1932-33
J H Aitken	Newport (Mon.)	1933-34
E J T Didymus	Stirling	1934-35
R S Forsyth	Southampton	1935-36
F G Humphrey	Carlisle	1936-37
F P Dickinson	Torquay	1937-38
E S Bardsley	Brighton	1938-39
J W T Ley	Bristol	1939-40
E E Hunter	Leicester	1940-41
T Foster	Manchester	1941-42
D M Elliot	Leeds	1942
A Kenyon	London	1943-44
R J Finnemore	Manchester	1944-45
A J Gibson	London	1945-46
F Treavett	Liverpool	1946-47
J E Jay	Hastings	1947-48
L R Aldous	Scarborough	1948-49
H D Moxley	Weymouth	1949-50
H J Bradley	Bath	1951-52
J Taylor	Cambridge	1951-52
H Bate	Edinburgh	1942-53
P W Jarrett	Douglas (IOM)	1953-54
E A Lofts	Harrogate	1954-55
A D Ramsay	Margate	1955-56
G Reid	Blackpool	1956-57
T Bartholomew	Harrogate	1957-58
G R Mead	Douglas (IOM)	1958-59
R G Venmore-Rowland	Brighton	1959-60
M J Williamson	Exmouth	1960-61
P G Reid	Edinburgh	1961-62
K L Ley	Folkstone	1962-63
W Heald	Dublin	1963-64
G Byrne	Blackpool	1964-65
L H Kirwan	Southsea	1965-66
D C Tuckett	Scarborough	1966-67
G A Hutt	Manchester	1967-68
K H Holmes	Eastbourne	1968-69
C Kilner	Douglas (IOM)	1969-70
C Bland	Harrogate	1970-71
D W Rees	Bournemouth	1971-72
H Pearson	Tenby	1972-73
W J Bailey	Newcastle	1973-74
I Peebles	Wexford	1974-75
K Ashton	Cardiff	1975
R Kelly	Buxton	1975-77
J Devine	Ilkley	1977-78
D Macshane	Whitley Bay	1978-79
J Ecclestone	Ayr	1979-80
F Beckett	Portrush	1980-81
H Conroy	Norwich	1981-82
J Hammond	Warwick	1982-83
E Barrett	Dundee	1983-84
G Findlay	Loughborough	1984-85
R McGuigan	Bristol	1985-86
R Keogh	Sheffield	1986-87
L Morrison	Blackpool	1987-88
B Gunnell & S MccGwire	Sheffield	1988-89
P McGill	Glasgow	1989-90
D Sinclair	Loughborough	1990-91
C Frost	Blackpool	1991-92
J Boumelha & R Trevor	London	1992-93
J Toner	London	1993-94
A Halpin	London	1994-95
K Connolly	London	1995-96
J Dear	London	1996-98
M Turnbull	Blackpool	1998-99
C Loftus	Eastbourne	1999-2000
D Toomer	Ennis, Co. Clare	2000-2001
R MacLeod	Scarborough	2001-2002
J Barsby	Eastbourne	2002-2003
G Macintyre	Llandudno	2003-2004
J Corrigall	Liverpool	2004-2005
T Lezard	Scarborough	2005-2006
C Morley	Liverpool	2006-2007
M Stanistreet	Birmingham	2007-2008
J Doherty	Belfast	2008-2009
P Murray	Southport	2009-2011
D DeLong	Southport	2011-2012