David Martin MEP (Scotland)
David Martin is Scotland's most senior European Member of Parliament (MEP).
David was educated at Liberton High School and Heriot-Watt University where he was awarded a BA (Hons) in Economics and has an MA in European Management and Employment Law from the University of
Leicester. He has been a guest lecturer on the course 'Europe After The Cold War: The Politics of the European Union' at the University of Glasgow.
Member of the European Parliament since 1984, Vice President from 1989 - 2004 and latterly Senior Vice-President of the European Parliament with special responsibility for relations with national
parliaments and parliaments of constitutional regional Assemblies.
He is a Member of the European Parliament Committee on International Trade, Substitute Member of the Committee on Petitions and the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and
Member of Temporary Committee on Climate Change and Member of Delegation for Relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council.
Member of the Transport and General Workers Union and the Brussels branch of the GMB.
Former Lothian Regional Councillor. Former leader of the British Labour MEPs 1987-88.
Ex stockbroker's assistant and animal rights campaigner.
Author of EP reports on: Traditional Industrial Regions; RECHAR (areas suffering from the decline in the coal industry); and the 'Martin Reports' (4) on the Maastricht Treaty on European Union.
Rapporteur on the 'Function of the Treaty on European Union in view of the IGC'.
Publications include: Fabian pamphlet "Bringing Common Sense to the Common Market - a Left Agenda for Europe"; "European Union and the Democratic Deficit", published by the John Wheatley Centre";
"Europe An Ever closer Europe", published by Spokesman Books; and "1996 and All That - The EP position on the 1996 IGC".
Special interest: social and regional policy and institutional reform.
Leisure: sport and reading.
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