Owen Tudor is deputy general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), a post he has held since 2018. Previously, he was Head of the European Union and International Relations Department at the UK lead trade union organisation TUC. He founded and for two years published Risks, the TUC's weekly online electronic bulletin and represented the TUC on the Health and Safety Commission, the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council, the Social Security Advisory Committee and was a founder member of the Civil Justice Council. From 2000-2003, he was a member of the Administrative Board of the European Agency for Safety and Health in Bilbao and from 1997 to 2003 he was an alternate member of the EU Advisory Committee on Safety, Hygiene and Health for which he produced several opinions. He has acted as an expert for the EU Economic and Social Committee on several occasions. He is a former Director of the Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association, Trustee of the British Occupational Health Research Foundation and of the Royal National Institute for Deaf people (RNID), as well as the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine. He has served as a director of the Ethical Trading Initiative.