Terry Wynn

He was vice-chairman to the president of the European Parliament (therefore de facto chairman) of the Parliament's temporary committee on "Policy Challenges and Budgetary Means of the Enlarged Union from 2007-2013".

Since Australia and New Zealand are part of the Cairns Group, campaigning for agriculture reform within the WTO, he was a vice-president of the Parliamentary delegation to these countries.  He was the inaugural speaker at the Jean Monet lecture at the university in Christchurch, (followed the next year by Prime Minister Helen Clarke).  He has addressed civil servants and politicians in Canberra and Wellington as well as Pretoria and Cape Town on European matters. In November 2006 he gave a public seminar at the Australian National University in Canberra. In March/April 2007 he was "European in Residence" for the EU Centres Network of New Zealand, visiting and speaking at the universities of Auckland, Waikato, Victoria University Wellington, Canterbury and Otago. He was also a keynote speaker at events to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Following this he was appointed Adjunct Senior Fellow at the National Centre for Research on Europe at the University of Canterbury.

From 1999 to 2004 he held the position of President of the Budget Committee in the European Parliament, which oversaw the, then, €110bn budget of the EU.  In this role he was Head of Parliament delegations when negotiating the budget with the Finance Ministers of the 25 Member States which occurred several times each financial year.  Responsible also for Parliamentary reports on the future financing of the EU.

In 1994 he co-authored a booklet "A guide to the Community Budget" published by the UK Local Government International Bureau and also published "The EU Budget – Public Perception and Fact".

He was a Member of the European Parliament; he held the European Constituency of Merseyside East from 1989 to 1994, Merseyside East and Wigan from 1994 to 1999, and from 1999 until 2006 represented the North West counties of England with a 7 million population, one of the 3 Labour Party Members out of a total of 9 MEPs for the region under a proportional voting system.

Wynn has been married to his wife Doris since 1967. He has two adult children and four grandchildren.

Prior to being elected as an MEP, he joined the Merchant Navy in 1962 as an engineer apprentice, working for T & J Brocklebank, ACL, Esso and Canadian Pacific and left 12 years later with a Combined Chief Engineers Certificate.

Terence Wynn (born 27 June 1946) is a former British politician who served in the European Parliament.