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Pat Cox
Pat Cox is the President of the European Movement International and the former President of the European Parliament. He was an active campaigner for the successful enlargement of the European Union and the European Parliament senior representative on the Intergovernmental Conference on the Constitutional Treaty of the EU. He was National Campaign Director of the successful civil society referendum campaign in Ireland for the Lisbon Treaty in 2009.
Having worked as an economist and broadcaster, Pat Cox was first elected to the
European Parliament in 1989, leading the Liberal Democrat group there from 1998 to
2002.
Earlier he was the founding Secretary General of the Progressive Democrats in
Ireland and a Member of Dail Eireann (Irish Parliament) in the early nineties.
Born in Ireland in 1952, married with six children, Cox graduated from Trinity
College in Dublin in 1974.
Languages – English, French, Irish
Pro bono activity:
- President, European Movement International, Brussels
- Director of Campaign, Ireland for Europe, Lisbon Treaty referendum campaign Ireland 2009
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Crisis Group, Brussels; Friends of Europe, Brussels; the Edmund Rice Schools Trust
- Member of the President’s Consultative Board, University College Cork
- Patron of the Blue Box Creative Learning Centre, Limerick
Business activity:
- Member of Microsoft European Advisory Council
- Pfizer Europe Advisory Council
- APCO Worldwide International Advisory Council
- Member of the Conseil de Surveillance Michelin
- Director, Tiger Developments Europe
