Neena Gill
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Neena Gill was a Member of the European Parliament
for the West Midlands
for the Labour Party
from 1999 to 2009. Prior to becoming a Member of the European Parliament, she was Chief Executive of ASRA and the Newlon Housing Group. Gill sat on the Urban Housing intergroup in the European Parliament.
She held the following appointments and interests:
Member of the European Parliament
A Member of the European Parliament is a person who has been elected to the European Parliament. The name of MEPs differ in different languages, with terms such as europarliamentarian or eurodeputy being common in Romance language-speaking areas.When the European Parliament was first established,...
for the West Midlands
West Midlands (region)
The West Midlands is an official region of England, covering the western half of the area traditionally known as the Midlands. It contains the second most populous British city, Birmingham, and the larger West Midlands conurbation, which includes the city of Wolverhampton and large towns of Dudley,...
for the Labour Party
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
from 1999 to 2009. Prior to becoming a Member of the European Parliament, she was Chief Executive of ASRA and the Newlon Housing Group. Gill sat on the Urban Housing intergroup in the European Parliament.
Education
Gill was awarded her first degree by Liverpool Polytechnic (BA Hons Social Studies) in 1979 and a postgraduate professional qualification from the Chartered Institute of Housing in 1986. She completed the London Business School senior executive programme in 1996. She is fluent in several Asian languages, Italian, and is currently studying French and German. She claims this has proved invaluable in promoting trade links with South Asia as part of her work as President of the European Parliament Delegation for Relations with India, to which she was elected in 2007.Activities within the EP
Gill was a member of the European Parliamentary Labour Party (EPLP) which is a member of the Party of European Socialists (PES) in the European Parliament (EP).She held the following appointments and interests:
- President of EP Delegation for Relations with India (elected 2007)
- President (2004–2007) of EP Delegation for Relations with South Asia and SAARC countries
- Vice President (2002–2004) of EP Delegation for Relations with South Asia and SAARC countries
- Member:
- Member of the Legal Affairs Committee and a former member of the Budgets Committee
- Ex-Officio member of the SAARC Delegation, 2007
- Substitute Member:
- ITRE Committee - Industry, Research and Energy: dealing with Information Society and Industry issues.
- Delegation ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly
- Working on the following Reports and Opinions:
- Rapporteur on Ambient Assisted Living ICT for ageing.
- Opinion on Cultural Industries in Europe
- Standing Rapporteur for EU Information and Communication Policy
- Budget Rapporteur for ITRE Committee
- Development Aid
- Gender Equality
- Member of European Parliament Informal Group:
- Friends of the Commonwealth (Vice President)
- Friends of Football (UEFA Sponsored)
- European Gender Equality Network
- Involved in the following horizontal working groups:
- Innovation, Investment, Internal Market
- Member of the Inter-groups:
- Anti-Racism and Diversity (Vice President)
- URBAN-Housing
- SMEs
- Sport
- Trade Unions
- Disability
- Party of European Socialists (PES):
- Auditor in the European Parliament
- Former spokesperson on the budgets of other institutions
- European Parliamentary Labour Party (EPLP):
- Bureau Member (until end 2006)
- Represents EPLP on the Labour National Policy Forum
- Spokesperson responsible for sister-party delegation links
- Spokesperson on Budgets and Link person to the Treasury
- Member of the Disciplinary Committee
- Activities linking European Parliament with other bodies
- Member of the Foreign Policy Centre Commission
- Member of the Transatlantic Policy Network
- Member of the European Energy Foundation
- Link to British Council
- Inter-Institutional Working Group (Commission, Council and the EP)
- Working Party on Information and Communication Policy