Paul Howell
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Paul Frederick Howell (born 17 January 1951) was a British Member of the European Parliament (Conservative) for Norfolk from 1979 to 1994.
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[edit] Early life
The son of Sir Ralph Howell MP, he was educated at Gresham's School, Holt and St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
[edit] Career
After Oxford, Howell devoted much of his early career to the Conservative Party, first in its Research Department (1973-1975), and later as an MEP. Generally on the liberal wing of the Party, he was a member of the Tory Reform Group. After losing his Norfolk European Parliamentary constituency in the European Parliament election, 1994, he went into business as chairman of Riceman Insurance Investments plc. Always a pro-European, the rise of the Euro-sceptics in the Conservative Party led him to join the Liberal Democrats.
[edit] Career summary
- Conservative Research Department, 1973–75
- MEP (Conservative) for Norfolk, 1979–94
- Member of Agricultural, Foreign Affairs and Fisheries Committees of the European Parliament, 1979–1994
- Spokesman for the European Democrat Group on youth culture, education, information and sport, 1984–86; on agriculture, 1989–92; on fisheries, 1989–94
- Member and EDG spokesman, Regl Committee, 1992–94
- Member of European Parliamentary delegations: to Central America, 1987–94; to Soviet Union, 1989–91; to Commonwealth of Independent States, 1991–94; to Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, 1993–94
- Vice-Chairman, European Parliament-Comecon Delegation, 1984
- Chairman, Riceman Insurance Investments plc, 1995–99
- Member of Council and Trustee of the RSPB, 1992–95
- Trustee, Nuffield Russia Trust, since 1991
[edit] References
- Who's Who 2007 (A. & C. Black, London, 2007)
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