Peter Dunphy

Peter Gerard Dunphy was born in 1966 in Consett, County Durham, England[1] and educated at St Bede's Catholic School and Sixth Form College in Lanchester, Co. Durham.

Dunphy is a business investment adviser and was previously and Investment Director of James Caan's Hamilton Bradshaw Private Equity, the CEO of FRG Recruitment and the former CEO of recruitment company, Dryden Human Capital (Formerly Darwin Rhodes Group), at the time the largest insurance staffing firm globally. He successfully sold the business in 2012 to private equity funds.[2]

He is also a film producer (as Peter Gerard Dunphy) and has acted as Executive Producer for over a dozen films including Mad to Be Normal starring David Tennant' Elisabeth Moss' Gabriel Byrne and Michael Gambon; Funny Cow starring Maxine Peake, Paddy Considine and Stephen Graham; Two Graves with Cathy Tyson, Dave Johns and David Hayman, the feature length autobiographical The Quiet One about Bill Wyman of The Rolling Stones and the feature length documentary Bicycle.[3]

Dunphy is a member of the Liberal Democrat[4] party for whom he was the unsuccessful candidate in Hornsey and Wood Green in the 1992 general election, the 1994 Dagenham by-election, and in Walthamstow Parliament constituency in the 2001 general election. Between 2012 and 2018 he was the Party's Registered Party Treasurer responsible for overseeing the financial compliance of the Party. He and his personal company Peter Dunphy Consulting had donated £152,637 (£138,658 personally) to the Party over several years.[5]

Dunphy is also an elected Independent City of London Councillor for the ward of Cornhill. He was elected in 2009 and re-elected in 2013 and 2017.[6] In 2016 he was elected Chairman of the Licensing Committee.[7] He was, along with Heidi Allen, founder and Director of Unite to Remain the electoral pact between parties which supported remaining in the European Union in the 2019 UK general election[8]

Dunphy is a trustee of The Honourable The Irish Society serving as Deputy Governor between 2019 and 2021 [9]

He is a Liveryman of The Worshipful Company of Drapers