Steve Priestly - Clerk, Northern Ireland Affairs Committee
Born 1956; state schools; 1974-77 Sussex University, BA(Hons) in International Relations; 1977-78 community service volunteer, St Mungo Community Trust; 1978-79 residential social worker, Middlesex Probation Service; 1979-84 an Assistant Clerk in the House of Commons (1979-81 Journal Office; 1981-83 Agriculture Committee; 1983-84 Treasury and Civil Service Committee); 1984-91 a Senior Clerk (1984-86 Treasury and Civil Service Committee; 1986-91 Table Office); a Deputy Principal Clerk since 1991 (1991-97 Clerk of the Environment Committee; 1997-2001 Public Bill Office as Clerk in charge of private Members' bills; 2001-07 Clerk of the Foreign Affairs Committee; 2007- Clerk of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee and Clerk of the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission).