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   YOUNG PROFESSIONALS IN FOREIGN POLICY

        'Europe in the world '
  on the EU's evolving foreign policy role

with Jim Murphy MP, Minister of State ( Europe)

  Tuesday, 23 October | 7:00pm - 8:00pm
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Mr Murphy is the Labour Member of Parliament for East Renfrewshire, and was asked by Prime Minister Gordon Brown to serve as Minister of State for Europe in June 2007.  In this role, he covers the UK's relations with every European nation, the European Union, NATO, Russia, and the nations of the Black Sea region and Central Asia.  Mr Murphy will make a presentation and lead a discussion on the EU's evolving foreign policy role.   A short biography of Mr Murphy is enclosed below.  

Jim Murphy MP  

Jim Murphy is currently Minister of State (Europe) at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and the Labour Member of Parliament for East Renfrewshire.  His portfolio includes responsibility for the UK's relations with each European nation as well as the European Union, Russia, Central Asia, the South Caucasus, the Balkans, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and the UKs relationship with NATO.  

In 2006, Mr Murphy served as the Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform, after having been Parliamentary Secretary at the Cabinet Office the previous year.   In 2001, he was appointed to the Government as a Whip, with responsibility for the Scotland Office, the Scottish Group of Labour MPs, and the Northern Ireland Office.  As Whip, he was later responsible for the Department of Trade and Industry, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Development.  He has also been a member of the Public Accounts Select Committee and Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Scotland.

Mr Murphy was elected as MP for the Eastwood Constituency in 1997.  He was re-elected for Eastwood in 2001, and again for the East Renfrewshire Constituency in 2005.