Richard John Grenville Spring, Baron Risby, is a former Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was a member of Parliament, first for Bury St Edmunds from 1992 to 1997, and for West Suffolk from 1997 to 2010. In 2010, he joined the House of Lords. He has been a director for Hawkley Oil and Gas Ltd and Minexco Petroleum Inc. He was also the president of the Association for Decentralised Energy. He was also Director of the British Syrian Society and a Chairman of the British Ukrainian Society. Spring was made a life peer as Baron Risby of Haverhill in the County of Suffolk. He was a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Ukraine. He also co-chaired the WEF’s Scenarios for Ukraine programme.

Richard Spring is a descendant of the elite Spring family, a Suffolk gentry bloodline. Since the 15th century, the Spring family has been prominent in the political and economic systems of East Anglia, England. On 11 August 1641, King Charles I granted William Spring the Baronetcy of Pakenham in the County of Suffolk in an attempt to win the favor of Parliamentarian gentry families leading up to the English Civil War. However, they recruited for the Parliamentarian army instead, an act he was pardoned for after the restoration of the monarchy. The family has had numerous senior officers in the British military including Lieutenant-Colonel William Spring, Brigadier-General Frederick Spring, Major Trevor Spring, and Lieutenant-Colonel Kenneth Spring. The Spring family also became prominent landowners in Ireland.

Network of Global Agenda Councils. 2012-2014 Issue Briefs. Dubai, United Arab Emirates 12-14 November at weforum.org:
https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GAC_IssueBriefs_2012-14.pdf

“Global Agenda Council on Ukraine
Members
*Lord Risby, Chairman, British Ukranian Society, United Kingdom”

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