About Elspeth Attwooll MEP

• Member of European Parliament for Scotland since 1999

• Vice-President, European Parliament Fisheries Committee

• Member, European Parliament Regional Development Committee

• Substitute Member, European Parliament Employment & Social Affairs Committee

• ALDE co-ordinator on European Parliament Fisheries Committee

• Scottish Party Europe Spokesperson

• Member, Scottish Party Executive

Date of Birth

1 February 1943

Family

Married to a historian

Education

St Andrews University: Queen's College, Dundee

LLB MA (Politics & Philosophy)

Foreign Knowledge

European countries (particularly the Netherlands, Greece & France)

Australia

Languages Spoken

Fluent French, some German, Dutch and modern Greek

Political Career

Member, Scottish Liberal Democrat Executive

President, Scottish Women Liberal Democrats

President of Scottish Section of Liberal International

European Parliamentary Candidate, Glasgow 1979

Parliamentary Candidate, Glasgow Maryhill 1974, 1979, 1983, 1987, 1997

Memberships

Amnesty International

Centre for Reform

Other Interests

Reading: particularly legal theory; detective fiction