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Peter Gerard Dunphy (born 1 June 1966) is a City of London Corporation Common Councilman and Deputy for the Ward of Cornhill, film producer and former staffing business CEO. He was elected Chief Commoner of the City of London in October 2023 assuming office on April 25th 2024.

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Early life

Born in 1966 at Consett, County Durham, [1] Dunphy was brought up in Lanchester, County Durham and educated at St Bede's Catholic School, Lanchester.

Career

Dunphy is a business investment adviser and was previously an 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]

Also a film producer (as Peter Gerard Dunphy), he has acted as Lead Producer or 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, Chris Gollon: Life in Paint featuring the late British painter Chris Gollon and the feature-length documentary Bicycle . [3]

Politics

Dunphy stood unsuccessfully as the parliamentary candidate of the Liberal Democrat [4] Party for Hornsey and Wood Green in the 1992 general election, the 1994 Dagenham by-election, and for Walthamstow in the 2001 general election. Between 2012 and 2018 he served as the Party's Registered Treasurer responsible for overseeing financial compliance. Peter Dunphy Consulting has donated £152,637 (£138,658 personally) to the Party over several years. [5]

An Independent City Common Councilman for the Ward of Cornhill, being elected in 2009 and re-elected in 2013, 2017 and 2022, [6] he was elected Chairman of the City's Licensing Committee in 2016. [7] and Chief Commoner of the City of London for 2024-25.

Dunphy was, along with former MP Heidi Allen, founding director of Unite to Remain, the electoral pact between parties which supported remaining in the European Union at the 2019 UK general election. [8]

Charitable work

Dunphy has been a long serving Trustee of the Honourable The Irish Society, serving as Deputy Governor between 2019 and 2021, [9] and is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Drapers. [10]

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