RICHARD BALFE
The Old Rectory, 10 Fitzroy Street, Newmarket, CB8 OJW
Tel: 01638 666643 | Email: Richard.balfe@balfes.com

Member of the European Parliament from 1979-2004, Richard is now Chairman of the European Parliament Members Pension Fund, a fully invested scheme based in Luxembourg with its main office in the European Parliament in Brussels.

He also serves as an elected member of the committee of the European Parliament Former Members’ Association.

Richard acts as a consultant on European Parliament matters and helps arrange events inside the Parliament. He also lectures at University level on European Institutions. For lectures please contact him directly or via the Former Members Association “EP to Campus” programme at formermembers@europarl.europa.eu

As a Euro MP he took a particular interest in Foreign Affairs and in Turkey’s application for EU Membership. He has a detailed knowledge of Turkey and its political life built up over 20 years of membership of the EP-Turkey joint Parliamentary Committee and literally dozens of visits covering virtually every major city in Turkey. In addition he served for ten years as one of the Members of the five strong House Administration Committee (The College of Quaestors) of the European Parliament and as a member of Parliament’s ruling Bureau. In 2004 and 2007 he was an election monitor in the Ukraine.

Richard is a trained mediator with accredited with the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR). He is available for general, commercial and pensions mediation either directly or through the Association of Cambridge Mediators. www.cambridgemediators.co.uk

Richard has a long history of involvement with charities He is currently Chairman of Anglia Community Leisure, a Trust which runs sports and leisure facilities in West Suffolk.
He is a member of the Council of the Catholic Union and holds a number of honorary positions in the Conservative Party.

Richard holds a BSc (Hons) in Social Policy and Administration from the London School of Economics and since 1972 has been a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.

He is married to Susan Honeyford/Balfe and has 3 children Richard (27), (Alexandra) (19) and James (16.)