NAME: Skinner, Peter.

UNITED KINGDOM

POLITICAL GROUP: Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament (S&D).

PARTY: Labour.

CONSTITUENCY: South East.

DATE OF LATEST ELECTION: 2009.

Committees: ECON since 1994; ITRE since 2004; Employment 1994-2004.

Political Career: Member of the European Parliament since 2004.

Special Political Interests: Finance and economics; USA Delegation – Transatlantic Relations.

Profession: Economics lecturer.

Education: Bradford, BSc; Warwick University, PostGraduate Diploma IR; University Sunderland, Fellow.

Languages: French.

Political Affiliations: Labour Party, UNITE.

Author of: Employee Share Ownership (1983).

Hobbies: Running.

Born: 1 June 1959, Oxford.

Marital status: Married.

Children: 1.