Malcolm Harbour

Malcolm Harbour
CBE
Malcolm Harbour CBE
Member of the European Parliament; for the West Midlands
	In office; 10 June 1999 – 2 July 2014
Preceded by	constituency established
Succeeded by	Bill Etheridge
Personal details
Born	19 February 1947 (age 77); Woking, Surrey, England
Political party	Conservative
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge; Aston University

Malcolm John Charles Harbour,

Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection

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Education and qualifications

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.^[2] In July 2008 he was awarded an honorary DSc by Aston University for services to science, technology and the European Union.

Motor industry

Harbour spent 32 years in the motor industry, as an engineer, a senior commercial executive, a consultant and a researcher. In 1992 he became a founding director of the International Car Distribution Programme and in 1998 initiated the 3DayCar Programme, studying the reconfiguration of the automotive supply chain. He began his motor industry career in the BMC

Austin Rover

, in 1982 Marketing Director, in 1984 UK Sales Director and 1986 Overseas Sales Director. In 1989, he jointly founded the specialist consultants Harbour Wade Brown.

European Parliament

Harbour became an active member 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. Harbour takes a special interest in the EU Single Market, industry, science and technology policy. He is chairman of the European Manufacturing Forum, the Ceramics Industry Forum and the Conservative Technology Forum. He is a governor of the European Internet Foundation

. He has been the lead MEP (rapporteur) for major legislation on Telecoms, the Single Market and Motor Vehicle standards. Since 2005, he has served on the CARS 21 High Level Group, a Europe-wide initiative to boost the automotive industry. He was named as a top 50 European of 2006 for his key role in broking agreement on the Services Directive. In May 2006, he was named the UK's most Small Business Friendly UK Parliamentarian by members of the Forum of Private Business. In September 2010, he was voted Internal Market MEP of the Year.

Harbour was appointed

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to the British economy.^[4]^[5]