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The Rt. Hon. Lord Maclennan of Rogart

Qualified:
 Mediator
General Information:
 Currently Member of Prime Minister’s Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACOBA)
Privy Counsellor 1997
Created life peer 2001
Former Member of BBC’s General Advisory Council
Former Chairman of North Highland Economic Forum
Former Member of Latey Committee on the Age of Majority

Other current activities include: President of UK Tinnitus Association, UK President of European Cultural Foundation, Council Member of National Youth Orchestras of Scotland, Board Member of Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Founding Board Member of North Lands Creative Glass.

Parliament and Government

  • Member of House of Lords (Lib Dem) 2001-
  • Member House of Lords European Union Sub-committee “C” Foreign & Security Policy 2001
  • Alternate Member of the Convention on the Future of Europe (2002-03)
  • Member Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights (2000-01)
  • MP for Caithness & Sutherland – later including Easter Ross (1966-2001) Labour, then SDP and Liberal Democrat
  • Member Joint Cabinet Committee on the Constitution (1997-2001)
  • Jointly chaired with Rt Hon Robin Cook, MP Lab-Lib Dem Committee to agree UK Constitutional Reform Programme (1996-97)
  • Lib Dem spokesman on Home Affairs, Broadcasting and Culture (1988-94)
  • Lib Dem spokesman on the Constitution, Broadcasting and the Arts (1994-2001)
  • Opposition spokesman on Foreign Affairs (Lab) (1980)
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection (1974-79)
  • PPS to Rt Hon George Thompson, MP, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs (1967-70)
  • Parliamentary Representative Council of Europe and WEU (1967-70)
  • Member House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (1979-99)
  • Leader SDP (1987-99
  • Twice elected President Liberal Democrats (1994-98)

    Professional and Legal

  • Director (non-executive) ATN Inc. (1992-98)
  • Consultant, Encyclopaedia Britannica (1983-96)
  • European Counsel, Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn – New York Law Firm (1981-89)
  • Barrister (of Grays Inn) at 1 Harcourt Buildings, Temple (1966-74 & 1979-81)

    Personal:
    Located in London and Caithness, married with three children. Born in Glasgow in 1936.

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