NAME: Gollnisch, Bruno.

FRANCE

POLITICAL GROUP: Non-attached (NI).

PARTY: Front national.

CONSTITUENCY: Est.

DATE OF LATEST ELECTION: 2009.

Committees: Member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs; Member of the Delegation for Relations with Japan; Substitute, Committee on Transport and Tourism; Substitute, Delegation for Relations with the Korean Peninsula.

Political Career: Member of the European Parliament since 1989; Member of the National Front Policy Bureau since 1986; Member of Lyons City Council since 1996; National Front Secretary-General since 1995; Member of the Rhône-Alpes Regional Council (National Front Group Chairman); Member of the National Assembly for Rhône 1986-1988.

Profession: Professor of Japanese Language and Civilisation at the University of Lyons since 1981; Lawyer Practising in Paris since 1980.

Education: Graduate in Politics of the Paris Institute of Political Studies 1973; Postgraduate Diploma (DEA) in Public Law 1973; Degree in Japanese and Malay/Indonesian from the Institute of Oriental Languages 1971-1973; Doctor of Law, Paris, 1978.

Born: 28 January 1950, Neuilly-sur-Seine.