Robert Moreland
British politician (born 1941)
Robert John Moreland (born 21 August 1941) is a British management consultant and Conservative Party politician. After a single term as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), he served on the Economic and Social Committee of the European Union for twelve years and was elected to two local authorities. He is descended from George Cockle.
Education
Robert Moreland was educated at Bearsden Academy, Glasgow Academy and Dean Close School (in Cheltenham), the latter two private schools. He then studied at the University of Nottingham for an undergraduate degree in Economics and at the Institute of World Affairs in Connecticut and the University of Warwick where he obtained postgraduate qualifications.
Early career
In 1966 Moreland started work in the Civil Service in Canada, at first in the government of Nova Scotia but from 1967 in the government of New Brunswick where he became Assistant Budget Director. In 1972 he returned to Britain to become Senior Economist on the West Central Scotland Planning Study, a job which took two years. In 1974 he began work as a management consultant for Touche Ross, where he remains.
Since 2012 he has been a member of the partnership board of the Canal and Rivers Trust for the Severn and South Wales.
Political involvement
Moreland became interested in politics, and at the October 1974 general election he was selected as Conservative Party candidate for Pontypool, a safe Labour seat in south Wales, where he lost with a reduced share of the vote.
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