Andrew Nicholas Duff

  Seat:  East of  England

  Occupation:  MEP
  Date of Birth:  25.12.1950
  Tel: 01223 566 700
  Fax: 01223 566 698

         Email: andrew.duff@europarl.europa.eu

         Web: http://www.andrewduff.eu

 Education:
Sherborne School, Dorset; Cambridge University; Univeristé Libre de Bruxelles.

Experience:

Previously worked for the Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government and the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust. From 1993-99, Director of the Federal Trust for Education and Research, London.


Council Experience: Councillor, City of Cambridge (1982-1990)

Parliamentary Experience:
Co-ordinator for Constitutional Affairs Committee
Memberships: Member of the ALDE Bureau


MEP profile

 Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament for the East of England

 

 Leader of the Liberal Democrat European Parliamentary Party

 

 Spokesman on Constitutional Affairs for the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) [See]

 

 Vice-President, EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee [See]

 

 Chairman of the Federalist Intergroup of the European Parliament 2004 - .



Parliamentary activities
- Questions [See]
- Motions for resolutions [See]
- Reports [See]
- Speeches in plenary [See]
- Written declarations [See]

Curriculum vitae

Born Birkenhead, Cheshire on 25 December 1950. 

Studied at Sherborne School, Dorset; University of Cambridge; Université Libre de Bruxelles.  

Previously worked for the Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government and the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust. From 1993-99, Director of the Federal Trust for Education and Research, London. 

Councillor, City of Cambridge 1982-1990. 

Vice-President of the Liberal Democrats 1994-1997.

OBE 1997.

 

Member of the EU Convention on the Charter of Fundamental Rights 1999-2000. 

Chairman of the Liberal caucus to the Convention on the Future of Europe 2002-2003.  

Representative of the European Parliament to the Intergovernmental Conference 2007.

Author or editor of many articles and books on European integration, including:  

  •  - Constitution Plus: renegotiating the treaty (2007)
  •  - Plan B: How to Rescue the European Constitution (2006)
  •  - The Struggle for Europe's Constitution (2005)
  •  - The Treaty of Amsterdam (1997)
  •  - Reforming the European Union (1997)

  •  - Maastricht and Beyond: Building the European Union (1994)

Andrew Duff writes monthly for FT.com.


Other interests 

Founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) 

Member of the Board of the Trans-European policy Studies Association (TEPSA) 

Member of the Steering Committee of the International European Movement

 


 
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