Robin Teverson, Baron Teverson

Robin Teverson, Baron Teverson of Tregony in the County of Cornwall ( born March 31, 1952) is a British politician of the Liberal Democrats, Member of the European Parliament was during the fourth term between 1994 and 1999 and since 2006 a member of the House of Lords is.

Life

After schooling Teverson graduated from the University of Exeter.

After he had applied at the general election on 9 April 1992 as a candidate of the Liberal Democrats in the constituency of South East Cornwall unsuccessfully for a seat in parliament in the House of Commons, he was in 1994 elected a member of the European Parliament and represented in this until the end of the fourth legislature in 1999 the constituency Cornwall and West Plymouth. He thus became one of the first two Liberal Democrats who were elected to the European Parliament. Most recently, he was there from 1997 to 1999 Main Group Managing Director of the European Liberal Democrats.

He then took over many tasks in the private sector, such as director of the company KCS Trade Print Ltd, Wessex Investors Ltd, Wessex Projects Limited and Wessex Hotel Operators Limited and as Chairman of the Finance South West Ltd.

On the other hand, he still was active between 1999 and 2002 as Chairman of the Finance and Administration Committee and at the same time as a member of the Executive Board at the Liberal Democrats. The function as a member of the Executive Board he takes again true since 2005.

On 26 June 2006 Teverson was raised as a life peer with the title Baron Teverson of Tregony in the County of Cornwall in the nobility and heard since then as a member of the House of Lords.

As such, it was between 2006 and 2009 Whip of the Group of Liberal Democrats in the House and at the same time until 2008 spokesperson on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, before he was spokesperson on energy and climate change from 2008 to 2010. In addition, Lord Teverson is a member of the Council of the County of Cornwall since 2009.