Jules Pipe

Who is Jules Pipe?

Julian Benjamin Pipe CBE is the first directly elected Mayor of the London Borough of Hackney since his election in October 2002.

He worked as a journalist until taking on the full-time position as Mayor. The Council was short-listed for Council of the Year in 2010 in what was described as a "Meteoric rise".

Pipe was elected as a Labour party Councillor in Stoke Newington in 1996, later representing the King’s Park Ward. He was re-elected at the May 2006 mayoral election and subsequently in the May 2010 mayoral election. He was Leader of Hackney Council from June 2001 to October 2002.