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Simon Murphy | |
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| Member of the European Parliament forWest Midlands | |
| In office 10 June 1999 – 10 June 2004 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Seat abolished |
| Member of the European Parliament forMidlands West | |
| In office 1994–1999 | |
| Preceded by | John Bird |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Simon Francis Murphy (1962-02-24)24 February 1962 (age 63) |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse | Bridget Brickley |
| Children | 2 |
| Occupation | Charity executive, former politician |
Simon Francis Murphy (born 24 February 1962) is a British charity executive and former politician who was a LabourMember of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1994 to 2004.
Born inBirmingham, Murphy was educated at theUniversity of Wales, Aberystwyth. He became a university tutor, and also spent time as research and press officer for the MEP John Bird. At the1992 general election, he stood unsuccessfully for theLabour Party inWolverhampton South West. He was elected in the1994 European Parliament election forMidlands West, which coveredWolverhampton,Dudley and parts ofSandwell. He was also a Governor of theUniversity of Wolverhampton from 1996 until 1999. Following the change in the electoral system for the1999 European election, he was elected as one of severalMEPs for the much largerWest Midlands constituency, serving until 2004.[1] From 2000 to 2002 he led theEuropean Parliamentary Labour Party, and served as a member of Labour'snational executive committee, and vice president of theSocialists Group in the European Parliament.
On leaving the European Parliament he was chief executive and company secretary of Birmingham Forward (a professional services trade association) from 2004 to 2006. He has served as a member of theBetter Regulation Commission 2005–2006, theMG Rover Task Force 2005–2006, as a director of Birmingham Professional Diversity (a not-for-profit employment consultancy), Regional Trade Champion 2003–2004, and as a West Midlands Ambassador 2005–2011. He then became director of the Birmingham,Coventry andBlack Country City Region from 2006 to 2011, now known as theWest Midlands Combined Authority.
Murphy unsuccessfully stood as the Labour candidate in theWest Mercia Police region of the 2012England and Wales Police and Crime Commissioner elections.
He was the interim chief executive officer of theWorcester Community Trust 2013–2015, interim chief executive officer of GroundworkNorthern Ireland 2015–2016 and executive director for development and sales, and director of projects, at the ExtraCare Charitable Trust, 2016–2018, and interim chief executive officer ofAge UK Plymouth from 2019.
He is the independent non-executive chair of the Sandwell Local Improvement Finance Trust Company (a health infrastructurepublic-private partnership) known as the Sandwell Estates Partnership. He was the senior independent director, and former chair of the Finance and Performance Committee, and also the Quality and Safety Committee at the thenDudley and Walsall Mental Health NHS Partnership Trust from 2015 to 2019, serving his last five months as interim chair of the board. He was also a non-executive director of theBirmingham Community Health Care NHS Foundation Trust, 2017–2018, as part of an ultimately unsuccessful bid to merge threeNHS Trusts into one. From 2014 to 2015 he was the co-founder, and chair, of theWorcestershire Social and Economic Inclusion Consortium, now known as Fusion, a trustee at the Worcester Community Trust from 2016 to }2017, a board member of the Worcestershire Local Enterprise Partnership from 2014 to 2017, and chair of the Worcestershire Food and Drink Federation from 2017 to 2019. From 2013 to 2015 he was the senior independent trustee at Groundwork West Midlands, and chair of its Finance and Audit Committee.
He is also the published author of several articles on fishing for the magazineWaterlog.[citation needed]
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| Preceded by | Leader of theEuropean Parliamentary Labour Party 1999–2002 | Succeeded by |
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