David Triesman, Baron Triesman, English union leader and politician

David Maxim Triesman, Baron Triesman (born 30 October 1943) is a British politician, merchant banker and former trade union leader.

Triesman is a Crossbench member of the House of Lords. Until resigning the whip in July 2019, Triesman sat as a Labour peer, having previously been a minister in the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills and Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He was chairman of the Football Association from 2008 to 2010.