Shaun Spiers

Shaun Mark Spiers (born 23 April 1962) is the Executive Director of the environmental think-tank, Green Alliance and a former Member of the European Parliament.

Shaun Spiers
Member of the European Parliament
for London South East
In office
9 June 1994 – 10 June 1999
Preceded byPeter Price
Succeeded byConstituency Dissolved
Personal details
Born (1962-04-23) 23 April 1962
NationalityBritish
Political partyLabour
Alma materSt John's College, Oxford
King's College London

Biography

He was educated at Brentwood School, read PPE at St John's College, Oxford and later took a master's degree in War Studies from King's College London writing Tom Wintringham and the Socialist Way of War for the Institute of Historical Research in 1988, a paper which led to Wintringham's papers coming to King's, and formed the basis for much of Wintringham's biography as eventually written by Hugh Purcell. A keen cooperator, he served as Political Officer of the South East Co-op (Co-operative Wholesale Society) from 1987–1994. In 1994 he was elected Labour MEP for London South East.[1] He served on the Agriculture and Rural Development committee. He was not re-elected in 1999 under the list system, and became Chief Executive of the Association of British Credit Unions Limited (ABCUL) which represents the vast majority of credit unions in Great Britain. Spiers was Chief Executive of CPRE 2004 to 2017. [2]

His book, How to build houses and save the countryside, was published by Policy Press in March 2018.

gollark: It does not always bridge itself.
gollark: Oh dear, that time is still wrong somehow?
gollark: Deployed apiforms.
gollark: Oh, THAT's what I wanted to change.
gollark: --remind 1m apioBeeoids

References
  1. "Your MEPs : Shaun Mark SPIERS". Europa. Retrieved 6 July 2010.
  2. "New chief for countryside campaigners". Campaign to Protect Rural England. Archived from the original on 25 February 2012. Retrieved 6 July 2010.


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