John Stevens
My Party:
Independent
My Constituency:
Buckingham
My Election:
2010 UK General Elections
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Buckinghamshire CampaignFor Democracy
28b West Street
Buckingham MK18 1HE
Telephone: 01280 817502
Email: bucksfirst1@yahoo.co.uk
My Experience
The Chairman of the Buckingham Campaign For Democracy is the respected former Conservative MEP for the Thames Valley, John Stevens.
John Stevens is 54. He was educated at Winchester and at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took a degree in law. After a time working in France, Germany and Italy for Reuters and others, he joined Morgan Grenfell in 1979 and rose to become a Director and head of their European Currency and Government Bond Trading Operation, which, in the mid 80s, was the largest of its kind in London. He was seconded for a period to New York and Tokyo.
In 1989 he was elected Conservative MEP for the Thames Valley and became Vice Chairman of the European Parliament’s Economic & Monetary Affairs Committee. He conducted all the legislation for the creation of the Euro through the European Parliament from 1989 to 1999. He was the European Parliament’s representative on the EBRD and on the European Monetary Institute which became the European Central Bank.
In 1999, with a number of others, he set up the Pro Euro Conservative Party, with the intention of encouraging Ken Clarke and Michael Heseltine to reform the Conservative Party under their leadership and restore it to its pro European traditions.
From 1989 to 1997 he was an adviser to J Rothschild Investment Management. In 1997 he helped set up Taube Hodson Stonex Partners and since then has been an adviser there. His other interests include agriculture and infrastructure development, notably railways.
He contributes regularly to a number of publications on European politics and economics. He has sponsored a research programme at Chatham House on the implications for Europe and the West of the rise of India and China. His principal present activity is as a researcher and writer on early Christian history and architecture.
