Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne MEP

Seat: South East England

Address:
House of Lords
LONDON
SW1A 0PW

Email: enicholson@europarl.eu.int

Web: http://emmanicholson.info/

Date of Birth: 16.10.1941

Occupation: MEP

Education: Royal Academy of Music (LRAM, ARCM, 1961). Hon. Doctorate, North London University (1998); Visiting Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford (1995-96), now Associate Member.

Parliamentary Experience: Vice-Chairman, Conservative Party 1983-1987; Conservative MP 1987-95; Liberal Democrat MP 1995-97, Peer 1997- ; MEP 1999-

Interests: The Islamic world, human and civil rights, intellectual property and freedom of information

BIOGRAPHY

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Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne (Emma Nicholson MEP) was elected as a Member of the European Parliament for the South East region of England in June, 1999. She serves as:

• Vice President of the Foreign Affairs Committee
• Member, Human Rights Committee
• Rapporteur for Iraq
• Rapporteur for Romania

http://www.europarl.eu.int/committees/femm_home.htm

- Member, Interparliamentary delegation to Mashreq countries and the Gulf States

- Member, European Parliament delegation to Euro-Mediterranean Forum.

- Member, Stability Pact for South East Europe Parliamentary group

- Substitute Member, Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development

http://www.europarl.eu.int/committees/agri_home.htm

- Substitute Member, Joint Parliamentary Committee for Romania

- Substitute member, Parliamentary Cooperation Committee for 

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan,Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia

http://www.europarl.eu.int/delegations/noneurope/pcc/d16/default_en.htm

She was created a Life Peer in 1997. 

In December 2002 she was voted 'MEP of the Year' in a poll of more than 20,000 people across 72 countries, conducted by the European Voice Newspaper.

Emma has recently been rated as the joint most environmentally friendly MEP in the UK by a consortium of environmental groups led by Friends of the Earth.

· Her NGO work includes the chairmanship of The AMAR International Charitable Foundation; Presidency of the Caine Prize for African Writing; Trusteeship of the Booker Prize for English fiction and of the Booker Prize for Russian Fiction. 

· She has been appointed as the World Health Organization Envoy on Health, Peace and Development.

· Doctor Honoris Causa: North London University (now London Metropolitan University) for work in the field of higher education for the disabled; the "Victor Babes" University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Timisoara and the Academy of Economic Studies of Bucharest, both for services to the enlargement of the European Union.