Robert John Emlyn Evans OBE (born 23 October 1956) is a British Labour Co-operative politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1994 until 2009.

[1] He was a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, chair of the delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and was also closely involved with Romania and Moldova.

[3] He has since been an independent consultant and freelance advisor to various MPs, MEPs, to CAMS College in Hayes,[4] and with his special expertise in Bangladesh to the charities BRAC, London Tigers[5] and the Brussels-based NGO Shipbreaking.

Brent East was previously a safe seat for the Labour Party, and had once been held by Ken Livingstone, but Evans lost to the Liberal Democrat candidate Sarah Teather.

[7] Evans is a Vice President of the League Against Cruel Sports,[8] a trustee of BRAC-UK,[9] and of the Brussels-based South Asian charity, NGO Shipbreaking Platform.

Despite being a lone Labour councillor, Evans has achieved a string of successes at County Council level, including persuading Surrey to oppose a return to grammar schools, to acknowledge and congratulate Sadiq Khan on being elected in 2016 as Mayor of London and to adopt the Co-operative Party charter against modern slavery.