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Pat Cox
President European Movement International
Biography
Biography
Pat Cox is the President of the European Movement International and the former President of the European Parliament. He was an active campaigner for the successful enlargement of the European Union and the European Parliament senior representative on the Intergovernmental Conference on the Constitutional Treaty of the EU.
Having worked as an economist and broadcaster, Pat Cox was first elected to the European Parliament in 1989, leading the Liberal Democrat group there from 1998 to 2002.
Earlier he was the founding Secretary General of the Progressive Democrats in Ireland and a Member of Dail Eireann (Irish Parliament) in the early nineties.
Pro bono activity:
- President of the European Movement International, Brussels. www.europeanmovement.eu
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Crisis Group, Brussels, www.crisisgroup.org
- Member of the Board of Trustees Friends of Europe, Brussels, www.friendsofeurope.org
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Edmund Rice Schools Trust, www.erst.ie
- Member of the Board, UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business, www.ucdbusiness.ucd.ie
- Member of the President’s Consultative Board, University College Cork, www.ucc.ie
- Patron of the Blue Box Creative Learning Centre, Limerick, Ireland, www.bluebox.ie
Business activity:
- Member Microsoft European Advisory Council, www.microsoft.com
- Member Pfizer Europe Advisory Council, www.pfizer.com
- Member of the Conseil de Surveillance Michelin, www.michelin.com
- Director Tiger Developments Europe www.tigerdevelopments.co.uk
- Member of APCO Worldwide International Advisory Council, www.apcoworldwide.com
