Dianne Hayter is a former Chief Executive of the European Parliamentary Labour Party and General Secretary of the Fabian Society.

She is now a consumer activist, representing consumers on the National Consumer Council, the Board for Actuarial Standards, the Insolvency Practices Council, the Surveyors Ombudsman Service Board, the Determinations Panel of the Pension Regulator and Chair of the Consumer Panel of the Bar Standards Board.

She is also the author of "Fightback!  Labour's traditional right in the 1970s and 1980s" and co-editor of "Men Who Made Labour", commemorating the 29 MPs who formed the Parliamentary Labour Party in 1906.