Before his election as MEP, John worked on WHO global campaigns for neurological conditions and mental health. He was also International Policy Adviser to the Institute of Psychiatry in London.

 

John is married with a daughter and two sons. He was educated at Tonbridge School and Brasenose College, Oxford. His career outside politics has included the British Insurance Brokers Association and the National Federation of Small Businesses. He had previously been National Secretary of the Federation of Conservative Students and National Organiser of the Conservative Trade Unionists.

 

His interests range across the arts, education, health and disability. He has been on the Boards of the Royal National Theatre, the South Bank, Battersea Arts Centre, International Social Service, National AIDS Trust, Epilepsy Research Foundation, Saneline, Share Community and the International Institute for Special Needs Offenders. He supports a number of organisations, as patron or vice-president, in the fields of health, youth and ex-offenders.

 

John Bowis' Experience

 

In his political life, John has been an election agent in Harborough, Councillor and Education Chairman in Kingston upon Thames, Member of Parliament for Battersea, which he gained from Labour in 1987 and held until 1997, and Minister 1993-6 at Health and 1996-7 at Transport.

 

Since 1999, John has been Member of the European Parliament for London. He was Deputy Leader of the Conservative MEPs from 2002 to 2003, and is currently Spokesman on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. He has been Rapporteur for the Parliament on Food Safety and on the Health Implications of EU Enlargement. He is Vice President for the EP Joint Parliamentary Delegation with African, Caribbean and Pacific countries.

John is a member of the Environment, Public Health & Food Safety Committee and a substitute member on the Development Committee.

Educated Balliol College, Oxford and Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London. Consultant Psychiatrist and Senior Lecturer, University College Hospital, London, and St Luke's Hospital, London, 1995-99. Research Fellow, Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, London University, 1988-90. House Surgeon, Middlesex Hospital, 1984-1985. Councillor, Earls Court Ward, Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, 1998-2000.

Born in 1957, Charles is married with three children.

His interests include skiing, travel and financial markets.

 

Charles Tannock's Experience

 

Charles was first elected MEP for London in 1999. He is Conservative spokesman on Foreign Affairs and Human Rights, and former spokesman on Financial Services from 1999-2001.

He was the Assistant Whip for the Conservatives in the European Parliament from 1999-2001 and Deputy Chief Whip until January 2005. He was Conservative spokesman on Financial Services until 2001.

He is currently a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee where he is the EPP-ED Deputy Coordinator, a substitute member of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, Vice-Chairman of the Human Rights Sub-Committee of the European Parliament and Vice-Chairman of the EP-Ukraine Delegation. He is Founder of the EP friends of India and Rapporteur on the European Neighbourhood Policy.

Charles was Consultant Psychiatrist and Senior Lecturer at University College Hospital and St Luke's Hospital from 1995-99.

Syed was born and brought up in London. He is married with two children. Syed was educated at the Latymer School, Edmonton. He has a degree from Liverpool University, a Masters from the London School of Economics and a PhD from City University, London.

He is a Visiting Fellow at Leeds University Business School where he has lectured MBA students in international business and strategy and supervised doctoral students’ research. He has written a number of articles on the international strategies of firms and foreign investment. In 1996, Syed completed a book on EU telecommunications policy.

Before entering the European Parliament, he worked as a consultant to companies on marketing, strategy and public affairs. In 2003, he started a diversity recruitment business. Syed is a co-founder of the Global Business Research Institute (GBRI), an educational body conducting outreach to business executives, journalists and civil servants, promoting a greater understanding of globalisation and its consequences. Syed’s interests include telecommunications, transport, postal services, broadcasting, global free trade and foreign investment.

 

Syed Kamall's Experience

 

Syed became a Member of the European Parliament in May 2005. He has been a member of the Conservatives since 1987 and has been a member of Vauxhall, Bath, Westminster, West Ham and Barking Conservative Associations. Since November 2007, Syed has been Treasurer of the Conservatives in the European Parliament.

In May 2000, Syed was a Conservative Candidate for the Greater London Assembly. The following year, he was Conservative candidate for West Ham in the June 2001 General Election.

Syed has made a short film about his work as an MEP which can be viewed in small format for dial-up users or in larger format for broadband users. Both require Windows Media Player.