Claude Moraes
British politician and campaigner (born 1965)
Claude Ajit Moraes, Baron Moraes, is a British Labour Party life peer and campaigner, who was a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for London between 1999 and the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU in 2020.
Background
Claude Moraes is of Indian descent. Born in Aden, he grew up in Scotland, having moved to Dundee aged five from India. His parents are Indian Catholics from Karnataka and Mumbai. He attended St Modan's High School and studied law at the University of Dundee, Birkbeck, University of London and the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is an Associate Fellow at The City Law School, University of London, Institute for the Study of European Law (ISEL).
Previous work
After leaving Scotland, Moraes lived and volunteered at Toynbee Hall, an East London charity, where he was a Council Member.
He was House of Commons researcher to MPs John Reid and Paul Boateng following the 1987 general election and a policy officer at the Trades Union Congress in 1989.
Claude Moraes received recognition as director of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, a refugee and migration legal protection NGO founded in 1967. At JCWI he helped organise legal challenges in the UK and European Courts, succeeding Dame Anne Owers as director in 1992.
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