Wednesday, 17 October 2007
Short biased summary CV
I developed an early interest in politics and debating at school, which continued at university where I became President of the Cambridge Union. After university I became a local government lawyer but was much more interested in European politics which led me to my first job in Brussels as Secretary-General of the Young European Federalists, an organisation of 10,000 members in 15 countries. I returned to the UK in 1980, re-trained and joined ICL to design software and then in marketing. However, my interest in politics dominated, I continued to be active in European politics and became very active in the Liberal Party, standing as our candidate in the target seat of Gainsborough & Horncastle in the disappointing election of 1987, where we sadly failed to "break the mould". Having re-married and started a family, I returned to Brussels in 1990 where I worked as a lobbyist, firstly for a range of private and public sector clients, then for a network of the older industrial regions (Objective 2) and finally for BirdLife International (RSPB in Britain) campaigning on conservation and environment. I returned to Britain in 1995 to run European Affairs for East Sussex. I now run Inside Europe which is my own consultancy working chiefly with universities and research institutes but also campaigning on climate change.
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