NirjDeva

General Data

 * Born on 11 May 1948, Colombo (Sri Lanka)
 * Country: United Kingdom
 * Political Group: European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) Party: Conservative Party

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 * Parlement européen
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 * Email: [mailto:nirj.deva@europarl.europa.eu nirj.deva(at)europarl.europa.eu]
 * Page on European Parliament website: www.europarl.europa.eu/members/expert/alphaOrder/view.do?language=EN&id=4556
 * Site web: www.nirjdeva.com

Functions in European Parliament

 * Committee on Development (Vice-Chair)
 * Subcommittee on Human Rights (Member)
 * Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia (Member)
 * Committee on Foreign Affairs (Substitute)
 * Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (Substitute)

Curriculum Vitae

 * Research Fellow, University of Loughborough (1971-73), Graduate of the Royal Aeronautical Society and Institute of Mechanical Engineers
 * Scientific advisor (1975-80), businessman and company director (1980-99)
 * Current: Chm Symphony Environmental Technologies PLC, Director Aitken Spence Ltd, Director, Distilleries Corporation Ltd, (both Forbes 300 Asian Companies), Advisor London Asia Capital plc, Chm Serene Resorts Ltd (Beach Property Developers)
 * Chairman, Bow Group (1981).Editor, Crossbow Magazine (1983), Political Advisor to the Home Secretary (1984-85)
 * Chairman, One Nation Forum Political Committee (1988-1991).Chairman, Committee on the Deregulation of European Air Transport (1983-86)
 * Member, Governing Council of the Royal Commonwealth Society (1977-80)
 * Secretary-General, Institute of Constitutional Research, London (1998)
 * Deputy Lord Lieutenant of greater London (1985- )
 * Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts 1994-
 * Vishwa Kirithi Sri Lanka Abhimaniya 2005- Member of Parliament for Brentford and Isleworth (1992-1997)
 * Select Committees: Education (1994-96) and Parliamentary Ombudsman (1993-97) Member, European Standing Committee B (1992-97)
 * Member of Her Majesty's Government, Parliamentary Private Secretary, Scottish Office (1995-97).Advisor to Iain Duncan Smith (2001-03)
 * Member of the European Parliament for South East England (1999 - )
 * Current Co-coordinator ofOverseas Development and Co-operation
 * European Delegate to the ACP-EU (1999 - ), European Parliament delegate to ASEAN countries (2002 - )
 * European Parliament's current Rapporteur on the World Trade Organisation and Development (2000 - )
 * Parliamentrepresentative on the Executive Council of the North-South Centre (since 2004)
 * EPP-ED Coordinator in the Committee on Development and in the ACP Delegation (since 2004)
 * Chairman Working Grp A of Development Committee overseeing the Country Strategy papers for Asia, Central Asia and Far East;Co Leader (with Michel Rocard former PM of France ) of European Parliament Delegation to the United Nations World Summit and General Assembly 2006
 * Chm Friendship Groups for China
 * Bangladesh
 * Sri Lanka
 * Indonesia
 * Afghanistan
 * In the European Parliament
 * International Organisations : Hon Ambassador at Large for Sri Lanka 2003
 * Candidate to succeed HE Kofi Annan as Secretary General of the United Nations in 2006
 * Chairman EU India Chamber of Commerce 2005
 * Chairman European Peace Foundation 2007
 * Negotiated resolution: on WTO / Seattle in Abuja, 2000
 * On Pacific region and chaired workshop on Sustainable development and management of natural resources in Brussels, 2000;on Everything But Arms in Libreville, 2001
 * On parliamentary dimension of WTO in Brussels, 2001
 * Negotiated:joint resolution on the situation in the Pacific in Cape Town, 2002
 * Compromise with the ACP side on Agricultural and mining commodities in Brussels 2005
 * The adoption of theDeerpalsing / Deva report on The problematics of energy in the ACP countries in Vienna 2006
 * International Missions including Election Observer Missions to Afghanistan (2004, 2005) as Chm Indonesia (2003, 2006) Kazakhstan (2005, 2007)
 * East Timor (2006)
 * Key note speaker at a conferences on Child Labour and Education (India 2004)
 * Global Peace (India 2005) UN Reform
 * Heritage Foundation, Hudson Institute Washington (2006), Foreign Relations Council New York (2006), EU China Relations: Beijing, Changchun, Shanghai, ( 2005, 2006, 2007)
 * Constant flow of speeches in the European Parliament mainly on Development issues
 * Topics include 'Private/Public sector undertakings in Developing Countries', 'Human Rights in Zimbabwe', 'Eradication of Poverty, Diseases and Food Shortages'
 * Co-initiator of Motions for Resolutions on subjects such as European Trade, human rights in Zimbabwe and the situation in Burma
 * Author of a number of pamphlets such as 'Who really governs Britain' (Bow Group) and articles for the European Journal

Votes

 * 24/11/2010 - Resolution on Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) 2.7/100
 * 22/09/2010 - Rapport Gallo on enforcement of intellectual property rights in the internal market 12.5/100
 * 06/05/2009 - Directives reforming the EU's regulatory framework for electronic communications networks and services (telecoms package), 2nd reading 29.2/100
 * 25/04/2007 - Criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPRED 2), 1st reading 77.6/100
 * 12/10/2006 - Resolutions on European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA) 5.6/100

Positions
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