Stanley Crossick

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Stanley Crossick (1935-2010) was an influential lawyer and lobbyist who focused his work on EU integration and the development pro business policies within the EU. In his later years Crossick was committed to strengthening trade and diplomatic relations between the EU and China. In 1997 Crossick co-founded the European Policy Centre a Brussels based think tank driven by business interests in internal and external EU affairs. Jacques Chirac awarded Crossick with Ordre Nationale du Mrite for his services to Europe in 2007 and he received an OBE in 2010. Crossick graduated from University College London in 1956, where he founded the universities basket ball club, before becoming a solicitor in 1959.

A profile of Stanley Crossick in the Economist called him the ‘grandfather of lobbying’ in the home of the EU institutions. An obituary written by John Wyles, a senior adviser at the European Policy Centre for Public Affairs points to one of greatest lobbying successes,The same piece (The profile in the Economist) told the story of one of Stanley’s greatest lobbying successes (about which he rarely spoke): the insertion of a 68-word paragraph in the 1992 Maastricht Treaty allegedly worth $1bn-$2bn a word to the European pensions industry" Crossick's 68 word paragraph prevented women and men equality in pension payments since 1957 in a treaty that insisted on equal pay between men and women, without Crossick's paragraph women would have been able to challenge for equal pensions from 1957.

Career History

• 1997-2010 Director and Founding Chairman of the European Policy Centre
• 1990-1997 - Chairman of the Belmont European Policy Centre and Belmont European Community Office
• 1987-1989 - Chairman and Senior Partner of C&L Belmont
• 1979-1987 - Founder and Managing Partner Belmont European Community Law Office Brussels
• 1974-1979 - International Consultant Franks Charlesly & Company London
• 1961-1974 - Partner and Senior Administrative Partner Franks Charlesly & Company London
• 1994-1997 - Senior Vice-Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce EC Committee
• 1981-1984 – President European Secretariat of the Liberal, Independent and Social Professions (SEPLIS)
• 1979-2010 - Honorary Vice President International Union of Lawyers (UIA)
• 1977-1982 - Deputy Secretary-general Consultative Council of the Bars and Law Societies of the European Community (CCBE)
• 1971-1979 - Secretary-general International Union of Lawyers (UIA)
• 1970-1982 – Member Law Society's International Relations Committee, and Joint Bar/Law Society Committees
• 1971-1974 – Member British Council of the European Movement
• 1971 – Recipient Ralph C Yablon Bursary - Not a membership appointment
• 1967-1972 - Honorary Secretary Law Society's Solicitors' European Group

Books & Publications

• Stanley Crossick & Etienne Reuter, (2007) China-EU: A Common Future. World Scientific Publishing, London. ISBN-13:978-981-270-176-5, ISBN-10:981-270-776-X
• Stanley Crossick, (1983) European banking law An analysis of community and member state legislation. Financial Times Business Information, London. ISBN-13: 9780903199629, ISBN-10: 0903199629
• Margie Lindsay & Stanley Crossick, (1986) European Company Law A Guide to Community and Member Share Legislation. Cartermill International, St Andrews Scotland, ISBN-13: 9780903199988, ISBN-10: 090319998X