Paddy Crumlin is a trade union leader with a global role in leading advocacy, campaigns and representation for transport and maritime workers' industrial, social and economic rights.As National Secretary of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA), Paddy fights for the pay, conditions and political interests of Australian workers employed in the waterfront and seafaring industries. Paddy currently also serves as the National President of the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union, of which the MUA is a division.As President of the International Transport Workers Federation, Paddy takes a global leadership role in advocacy and campaigns for some of the world's most vulnerable workers, including international seafarers, dockers and transport workers.Paddy is a long-term advocate and proponent of Workers Capital; the responsible investment of workers' superannuation and pension funds and has held leadership positions with the Maritime Super fund and is Co-Chair of the Committee on Workers Capital, a global effort to coordinate investment policies that meet Environmental, Social and Governance targets to ensure workers' retirement funds are invested ethically and responsibly.He is a Director of the ACTU's Centre for Workers' Capital in Australia and chairs a number of charitable and not-for-profit organisations including the Tas Bull Seafarers Foundation, Hunterlink and the ITF Seafarers Trust, as well as serving as a long-term workers representative to the International Labor Organisation in Maritime related labour governance.Paddy is also active in industry development and training, chairing Maritime Employee Training Limited and having served as a Director of Sydney Ports Corporation.