MacSHANE, Denis Rt Hon Dr

Member for Rotherham since 1994. Committees: UK Delegate to Council of Europe and Nato Parliamentary Assembly; Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Anti-Semitism; Member, Finance Bill Committee 1995; Member, Korea Group; Member, Taiwan Group. Political career: Labour Whip withdrawn October 2010; Privy Councillor June 2005; Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office 2002-05; Appointed Minister for Europe 2002; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office 2001-02; Joint Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Ministers of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1999-2001; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Geoff Hoon as Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1999; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Joyce Quin, Derek Fatchett and Tony Lloyd as Ministers of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1997-99; Parliamentary Candidate for Solihull 1974. Special political interests: Economy, manufacturing, fiscal, labour market, European policy issues. Profession/Trade: President, National Union of Journalists 1978-79; BBC producer 1969-77; international trade union official. Education: St Benedicts School, Ealing; Merton College, Oxford; London University, MA History, PhD International Economics. Author of: Edward Heath - a Biography; François Mitterand - a Political Biography; Solidarity - Polands Independent Trade Union; Power! - Black Workers and the Struggle for Freedom in South Africa; International Labour and the Origins of the Cold War; writes regularly for national newspapers and political journals, also for French, German and American newspapers. Affiliations: Senior member of the Fabian Society Executive. Hobbies: Skiing, walking, gardening. b. 21 May 1948. Divorced. Five children, one deceased.