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Jonathan Evans MEP & Chairman European Parliament's Delegation for relations with US Congress.
 
Jonathan Evans MEP & Chairman European Parliament's Delegation for relations with US Congress.
===Grayling biography===
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<blockquote style="background-color:beige;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%">Chairman European Parliament's Delegation for relations with US Congress since 2004<br>Co-Chairman Transatlantic Legislators Dialogue since 2004<br>Conservative Member of the European Parliament for Wales since 1999<br>Leader of the Conservatives in the European Parliament 2001 to 2004<br>Member and Conservative Spokesman on Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of European Parliament.<br>Rapporteur on Modernisation of Competition Policy and leading EPP-ED Group contributor on competition policy issues.<br>Jonathan was formerly a Member of the UK House of Commons and served as Corporate Affairs Minister at the Department of Trade &amp; Industry with responsibility for competition policy, monopolies and mergers and the Insurance Industry under the last Conservative Government. He also served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Lord Chancellor and as Under-Secretary of State for Wales.<br>Jonathan Evans is a Solicitor, and practised with Leo Abse &amp; Cohen, Cardiff from qualification until his election to Parliament in 1992, by which he had become Managing Partner of the practice.  In 1997 he was appointed Director of Insurance in the City of London office of Eversheds, the major global law firm, and remains a consultant to the firm. He has also acted as a consultant on London market issues to several major North American insurance corporations.</blockquote>
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==Career History==
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* Chairman European Parliament's Delegation for relations with US Congress since 2004
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* Co-Chairman Transatlantic Legislators Dialogue since 2004
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* Conservative Member of the European Parliament for Wales since 1999
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* Leader of the Conservatives in the European Parliament 2001 to 2004
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* Member and Conservative Spokesman on Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of European Parliament.
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Evans was rapporteur on Modernisation of Competition Policy and leading EPP-ED Group contributor on competition policy issues, and was formerly a Member of the UK House of Commons and served as Corporate Affairs Minister at the Department of Trade &amp; Industry with responsibility for competition policy, monopolies and mergers and the Insurance Industry under the last Conservative Government. He also served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Lord Chancellor and as Under-Secretary of State for Wales.
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Evans is a Solicitor, and practised with Leo Abse &amp; Cohen, Cardiff from qualification until his election to Parliament in 1992, by which he had become Managing Partner of the practice.  In 1997 he was appointed Director of Insurance in the City of London office of Eversheds, the major global law firm, and remains a consultant to the firm. He has also acted as a consultant on London market issues to several major North American insurance corporations {{ref|1}}.  
  
 
==Affiliations==
 
==Affiliations==
 
*[[Grayling Political Strategy]]
 
*[[Grayling Political Strategy]]
 
*[[European Parliamentary Financial Services Forum]], member
 
*[[European Parliamentary Financial Services Forum]], member
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#{{note|1}} Jonathan Evans [http://www.jonathanevans.org.uk/biography.html Biography], Accessed 20th August 2007.

Revision as of 16:52, 20 August 2007

Jonathan Evans MEP & Chairman European Parliament's Delegation for relations with US Congress.

Career History

  • Chairman European Parliament's Delegation for relations with US Congress since 2004
  • Co-Chairman Transatlantic Legislators Dialogue since 2004
  • Conservative Member of the European Parliament for Wales since 1999
  • Leader of the Conservatives in the European Parliament 2001 to 2004
  • Member and Conservative Spokesman on Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of European Parliament.

Evans was rapporteur on Modernisation of Competition Policy and leading EPP-ED Group contributor on competition policy issues, and was formerly a Member of the UK House of Commons and served as Corporate Affairs Minister at the Department of Trade & Industry with responsibility for competition policy, monopolies and mergers and the Insurance Industry under the last Conservative Government. He also served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Lord Chancellor and as Under-Secretary of State for Wales.

Evans is a Solicitor, and practised with Leo Abse & Cohen, Cardiff from qualification until his election to Parliament in 1992, by which he had become Managing Partner of the practice. In 1997 he was appointed Director of Insurance in the City of London office of Eversheds, the major global law firm, and remains a consultant to the firm. He has also acted as a consultant on London market issues to several major North American insurance corporations [1].

Affiliations

References

  1. ^ Jonathan Evans Biography, Accessed 20th August 2007.