Malcolm Harbour

Malcolm John Charles Harbour, CBE (born 19 February 1947), is a British Conservative Party politician who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the West Midlands between 1999 and July 2014.

[1] He is a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group and the chairman of the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection.

Harbour was educated at Bedford School (1960–64), Trinity College, Cambridge (1964–67) where he graduated in engineering, and at Aston University (1967–70) where he gained a diploma in management studies.

After working as a design and development engineer, he spent eight years planning and managing new product programmes in the Rover Triumph Division.

He is chairman of the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection and is a Member of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group.

He is vice-chairman of the Parliament's Science and Technology Options Assessment Panel (STOA) and a Member of the Inter-Parliamentary Delegation to Japan.