NAME: Newton Dunn, Bill.

UNITED KINGDOM

POLITICAL GROUP: Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE).

PARTY: Liberal Democrat Party.

CONSTITUENCY: East Midlands.

DATE OF LATEST ELECTION: 2009.

Committees: Budgetary Control; Climate Change; Internal Market;
Justice and Home Affairs.

Political Career: Whip of UK's Liberal Democrat MEPs since 2004; Elected to European Parliament in 1979, 1984, 1989, 1999 and 2004;Joint Leader of the British Conservative Delegation 1993-1994.

Special Political Interests: Trying to spur national governments into creating a European FBI because co-operation between national forces does not work.

Education: Caius College, Cambridge, MA, MBA; INSEAD Business School, Fontainebleau.

Languages: French, Italian and German.

Author of: Memories of the First Elected European Parliament. (2008);
Europe Needs An FBI. (2004); The Devil Knew Not. [novel] (2000); The EU's Democratic Deficit. (1988);The Man Who Was John Bull. (1996); Big Wing. [biography] (1992).

Born: 3 October 1941, Greywell, Hants, UK.

Children: 1 son and 1 daughter.