Maurice Glasman

The Right Honourable The Lord Glasman
Born	8 March 1961 Walthamstow, London, U.K.
Education	Clapton Jewish Day School Jews' Free School
Alma mater	St Catharine's College, Cambridge
Occupation	Academic, peer
Political party	Labour Party
Spouse(s)	Catherine Glasman
Children	4
Parent(s)	Collie Glasman Rivie Glasman

Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman (born 8 March 1961) is an English academic, social thinker and Labour life peer in the House of Lords. He is a senior lecturer in Political Theory at London Metropolitan University, and Director of its Faith and Citizenship Programme. He is best known as a founder of Blue Labour, a term he coined in 2009.

Glasman was born in Walthamstow, north-east London, into a Jewish family and brought up in Palmers Green. His father Collie Glasman, a Labour Zionist, had a small toy manufacturing business that eventually collapsed; his mother Rivie Glasman, the daughter of a poor family from Stamford Hill, was a lifelong Labour supporter. Glasman was educated at Clapton Jewish Day School (now Simon Marks Jewish Primary School) and the Jews' Free School (JFS), where he won an exhibition to study Modern History at St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

A trumpeter, he became a jazz musician for four years, and then gained an MA in Political Philosophy at the University of York, and a PhD at the European University Institute in Florence with a thesis on the German social market economy, which was published in 1996 under the title Unnecessary Suffering. Glasman cites political thinkers from Aristotle to the Hungarian economist and sociologist Karl Polanyi as major influences on his politics.

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