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Bill Newton Dunn

Seat: East Midlands

Date of Birth: 03.10.1941

Occupation: MEP

Tel: 01522 810 812

Marital status/children: Married, two children

Email: wnewton@europarl.eu.int

Web: http://www.newton-dunn.com/

Education:

Marlborough College (1955-1959); Diploma, University of Paris (Sorbonne) (1960); MA (Natural Sciences), Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (1960-1963); MBA (trilingual), INSEAD, Fontainebleau (1965-1966)

Parliamentary Experience:

British Lib Dem MEPs whip, Former Chair of the Conservative Group in the European Parliament, former Conservative spokesman on Transport, Rules and Foreign Affairs committees

MEP profile

Vice-Chairman
- Committee on Budgetary Control [See]

Member

- Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection [See]
- Delegation for relations with Japan [See]

Substitute
- Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs [See]

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

Curriculum vitae

- Education : MA (physics and chemistry), Caius College, Cambridge. And MBA, INSEAD business school, Fontainebleau.
- Worked in industry (1963-1979).

- Member of the European Parliament (1979-1994 and from 1999- ) Joint Leader of the British Conservative delegation (1993-1994); now Whip of UK's Liberal Democrat MEPs (2004- ).

- Author of two biographies, other books, and several political pamphlets, including most recently 'Europe Needs an FBI' (2004)

Biography

Bill Newton Dunn is a former chairman of the Conservative group in the European Parliament and has been an MEP since 1979. He is vice-chairman of the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee.

He has been an MEP since 1979 and has represented East Midlands since 1999 and Lincolnshire 1979-94.

He is a former Chairman of the Conservatives in the European Parliament (1993-4), former Conservative spokesman in the European Parliament on the Transport, Rules, and Foreign Affairs committees.

He defected from the Tories in November 2000 (see full story).

Born in 1941, he is married to Anna and has two children.

He is the author of The devil knew not, a political thriller which guides the reader through the labyrinth of Brussels, Strasbourg, the European Parliament, the Commission and the Council of Ministers.