About Liz Lynne MEP

Parliamentary Experience:

Member of European Parliament for the West Midlands Region, 1999-present.

Member of Parliament for Rochdale 1992-97. Liz was the Liberal Democrat spokesperson on Health & Community Care 1992-94, and Social Security and Disability 1994-97.

Posts Held in European Parliament:

- Liberal Democrat spokesperson on Employment and Social Affairs

- Vice-President, Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

- Substitute, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy

- Member, Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).

- Vice-President, All Party Disability Intergroup

- Co-Chair, All Party Kashmir Intergroup

- Rapporteur, European Year of People with Disabilities 2003 (2001)

- Rapporteur, UN Ad Hoc Committee on Disabled People's Rights (2003)

Other Roles:

President, Liberal Democrat Disability Association

Vice President, Liberal Democrat Action Group for Gaining Electoral Reform

Patron, Jennifer Trust

Patron, Blue Eyed Soul Dance Company

Founder and Chair for first seven years of the Indonesian Co-ordination for British Section of Amnesty International.

Non-parliamentary Career

Actress and Speech Consultant