Jeremy Corbyn, independent MP for Islington North, founder and director of the Peace and Justice Project (PJP), was twice elected leader of the British Labour Party (2015-2020). He has served as Member of the British Parliament for Islington North for 42 years and he was a member of the Council of Europe (2020-2024).

His extensive and lifelong campaigning for peace, justice and human rights has taken him across the world, advocating in senior roles for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the Palestinian Solidarity Committee, Stop the War, the UN Human Rights Council in New York (review of the Geneva Convention), nuclear non-proliferation, trade unions, Labour rights, Indigenous rights and many social movements. Corbyn has twice been awarded prizes for promoting peace, including the Seán MacBride Peace Prize for his sustained and powerful political work for disarmament and peace. He founded the People’s Forum after winning the 2024 elections.