John Bowis
John Crocket Bowis OBE (born 2 August 1945 in Brighton, East Sussex) is a former Conservative MP and MEP.
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[edit] Education
John Bowis was educated at Tonbridge School and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
[edit] Political Life
He was first elected at the 1987 general election as Member of Parliament for Battersea. From 1993 to 1996 he was a health minister and from 1996 to 1997 he was a transport minister, before losing his parliamentary seat at the 1997 general election.
At the 1999 European Parliament election Bowis was elected to represent the London region. He was re-elected in 2004, and stood down at the 2009 election.
He has been National Secretary of the Federation of Conservative Students and worked at the Institute of Psychiatry.
He is an active member of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
He has served as president of Gay Conservatives, an LGBT group within the Conservative Party.[1]
He is the incumbent chairman of the Conservative Europe Group.[2]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Gay Conservatives President Re-elected
- ^ http://www.conservativeeuropegroup.org.uk/newsshow.aspx?id=5&ref=24 CEG 2011 Annual General Meeting report
Personal life: Married to Caroline (nee Taylor), one daughter (Imogen), two sons (Duncan and Alistair.
JOHN BOWIS OBE
President: Health First Europe; Vice-President: European Health Forum Gastein; Chairman: Health Advisory Board, GSK; Adviser to FIPRA, Policy Action and Hanover; Board Member: TBVI, Global Initiative on Psychiatry, Gamian Europe, European Men’s Health Forum, European Health Academy, European Institute of Health, Sane, Mental Disability Advocacy Centre and Maastricht University European Health Faculty; Patron: Fund for Epilepsy; Apex Trust; Vice President: Diabetes UK and Conservative Europe Group; Ambassador: National Aids trust and Alzheimer’s Society.
1999-2009 Member of the European Parliament for London 1999-2009
Rapporteur inter alia: ECDC; Mental Health; Neglected Diseases; and Cross Border Health.
1997-1999 International Policy Adviser to the World Health Organisation on global campaigns: ‘Nations for Mental Health’ and ‘Out of the Shadows’ (epilepsy).
1987-1997 M.P. in UK and Minister for Health & Social Services and then Transport
Hon. Fellow: Royal College of Psychiatrists and Royal College of Physicians. Awarded OBE
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[edit] External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by John Bowis
- Profile on European Parliament website
- John Bowis – John Bowis OBE
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| Preceded by Alf Dubs |
Member of Parliament for Battersea 1987–1997 |
Succeeded by Martin Linton |
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