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Glyn Ford was born on 28 January, 1950 in Gloucester, England, United Kingdom, is a British academic and politician (born 1950). Discover Glyn Ford's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?
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Glyn Ford (born 28 January 1950) is a British academic and Labour Party politician.
After a year as an apprentice at the British Aircraft Corporation he returned to education gaining a degree in Geology from the University of Reading in 1972, then a master's degree in marine Earth science from University College London in 1974.
For most of his academic career Ford worked at the University of Manchester, as a research fellow (1976–1979), a lecturer (1979–1980), and finally as a senior research fellow in the Department of Science and Technology Policy (1980–1984).
He also taught for the Open University (1976–1978) and UMIST (1977–1978).
He was a research fellow at the University of Sussex (1978–1979).
In 1983, he spent six months as a visiting professor at Tokyo University.
He was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1984 to 2009, initially for Greater Manchester East until 1999, then South West England from 1999 to 2009.
Ford was born in Gloucester.
He went to Marling School, Stroud.
After becoming a member of the European Parliament in 1984, the University of Manchester made him an honorary visiting research fellow.
While working at the University he was a local councillor in the Greater Manchester borough of Tameside, where he was the Chair of the Environmental Health and Education Committees.
On 14 June 1984 Ford was elected as a member of the European Parliament for the new constituency of Greater Manchester East.
Ford was Chair of the European Parliament's Committee of Inquiry into The Growth of Racism and Fascism in Europe (1984–86) and rapporteur for a second European Parliament Committee of Inquiry into Racism and Xenophobia.
In 1987 he stood as the Labour candidate for the Hazel Grove constituency in Greater Manchester in the 1987 general election, a seat where Labour had no likelihood of winning.
Ford was for fifteen years a member of the European Parliament's Research Committee, the Guest Editor of the Science and Public Policy Special Issue on Science and Technology in Europe and the author, with Chris Niblett and Lindsay Walker, of The Future for Ocean Technology (Frances Pinter, 1987).
He held this seat for three terms, until the constituency was abolished in 1999, being re-elected on 15 June 1989 and 9 June 1994.
From 1989 to 1993 Ford was Leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party and Deputy Chair of the European Parliament Socialist Group.
Consequently he was also a member of Labour's National Executive Committee.
He was National Treasurer of the Anti-Nazi League and author of Fascist Europe (Pluto, 1992).
He served as the European Parliament's representative on the Council of Ministers Consultative Commission on Racism and Xenophobia (1994–99).
On 10 June 1999 Ford was elected as a member of the European Parliament for the constituency of South West England for both the Labour Party and the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party.
Gibraltar was part of the South West England European Parliament constituency.
Ford campaigned for Gibraltar to have its own seat in the European Parliament, rather than only having representation through the South West England constituency.
Ford held this seat for two terms, being re-elected on 10 June 2004.
He served throughout his time in the European Parliament as a member of the Japan Delegation and as a member of the Korean Peninsula Delegation from its formation in 2004.
In these roles he visited North Korea almost 50 times.
He was the EU's Chief Election Observer in Indonesia in 2004 and in Aceh 2006–7.
In 2008, he published, North Korea on the Brink: Struggle for Survival (Pluto) which has been subsequently been published in Japanese and Korean.
He wrote for The Japan Times.
After leaving the European Parliament, Ford founded the Public Affairs and International Relations consultancy Polint.
He lost his seat in the elections on 4 June 2009.
The Labour Party gained 118,716 votes (7.61%) in the South West region in 2009, which was insufficient to win a seat in the multi-member constituency which had had its representation reduced from seven to six at that election.
Ford's three main areas of interest are Research and Development, Racism and East Asia.
Ford stood in the 2014 European Parliament election, but his second position on the Labour South West England list did not yield a seat.
Since 2014 Ford has been Director of the Brussels-based NGO Track2Asia.
In 2014, he was a regular contributor to Tribune.
Ford is a member of the Labour Party National Policy Forum, and was re-elected in 2015.
As of 2020, Ford writes on international matters for Chartist, NK News and 38 North.