Curriculum Vitae

 

 

Bill NEWTON DUNN
Liberal Democrat MEP for the East Midlands region of the United Kingdom

 
Home Address 10 Church Lane, Navenby, Lincoln, LN5 0EG, UK
European Parliament Address Parlement Europeen, Office 10-G-254, Rue Wiertz, B-1047 Brussels, Belgium
Brussels Telephone 00-32-2-284-5712
Brussels Fax 00-32-2-284-9712
E-Mail bill.newtondunn@europarl.europa.eu
Websites www.newton-dunn.com
www.libdemeuro.com
   

Family

- wife Anna, works for Europe Direct, a free service which offers information on all sorts of subjects related to the EU including your rights and opportunities as an EU citizen and how to take advantage of them.
-son Thomas is Defence Editor of the the Sun newspaper
- daughter Daisy is an associate producer for a television documentary company in London, specialising in China.She also writes a monthly article for Hong Kong Tatler

Career
Currently

Full member of the Internal Market & Consumer Protection Committee
Alternate member of the Justice & Home Affairs Committee
Alternate member of the committee on Alleged Use of European Countries by the CIA for the Transport and Illegal Detention of Prisoners

July 2005

Appointed Whip of the Lib Dems
March 2002 Elected Chairman of the UK's group of 11 Lib Dem MEPs
January 2002 Full member of committee on Citizens Freedoms (which covers Immigration, Asylum, Policing etc)
Alternate member of the Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research & Energy
November 2000 Frustration at the Conservative party's increasing negativity about Britain's role in Europe resulted in me joining the Liberal Democrats
July 1999 Elected as Conservative MEP for East Midlands
Vice-chairman of the Foreign Affairs committee
1979-1994 Conservative MEP for Lincolnshire
Elected Joint-Leader & Chairman (1993) by the other 31 Conservative MEPs
previously Deputy Leader
1974 Candidate in both General Elections:
Carmarthen (February 1974)
Cardiff West (October 1974)
until 1979 Worked in industry, latterly with Fisons Fertilizers
Writing

political pamphlets

- Greater In Europe (1986)

- Why the Public should be worried by the EEC's Democratic Deficit (1988) which originally coined the phrase "the democratic deficit"

- Democratising the European Community (1989)

- The EU's Rapid Reaction Force (2001)

- Europe Needs an FBI (2004)


biographies :

- Big Wing (the life of ACM Trafford Leigh-Mallory), 1992

- The Man Who Was John Bull (the life of Regency wit Theodore Hook), 1996


novel :

- The Devil Knew Not (the first political story set in the European Parliament) 2000

public speaking:

- four tours in USA for the English Speaking Union (in 1995, 1998, 2000)

- lectures at the Civil Service College about the European Parliament

education
- Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge (MA degree in Natural Science)

- INSEAD Business School, Fontainebleau (MBA tri-lingual degree in Business Administration)

languages spoken
French, Italian, & German