Nick Clegg is a regular columnist for Guardian Politics Unlimited, some of the web’s most widely read political commentary. Nick has a wealth of political experience at senior levels having served as an MEP for the East Midlands, which borders Sheffield Hallam, and as a party spokesman on trade and industry. Nick was elected in May 2005 as the new MP for Sheffield Hallam, suceeding Richard Allan, with a majority of over 8,600.
From 1999 until 2004 Nick was the Liberal Democrat MEP for the neighbouring Euro constituency of the East Midlands. In the European Parliament, he was the Liberal Democrat’s senior Trade and Industry spokesman, where he played a leading role in debates on world trade, energy, telecoms, transport and the problems of Government red tape. He served as the sole Liberal Democrat MEP on the European Parliament’s Temporary Committee of Inquiry into the Foot and Mouth outbreak, the only independent investigation into the Government’s handling of the crisis. He was also a founder member of the Campaign for Parliamentary Reform, a cross party campaign group pressing to reform and modernise the procedures of the European Parliament.

Nick Clegg in HallamHe has published numerous books/pamphlets on public policy issues, including European secondary education systems, world trade, and the need for EU institutional reform. He regularly publishes articles in the national and international press, and is a political columnist for the Guardian Unlimited website (http://www.guardian.co.uk), the most widely used political website in the UK.

In recent years he has been a part time lecturer at Sheffield University, and a guest lecturer at Cambridge University. He has also provided advice to British businesses on new legislation.

He was educated at Cambridge University, with post graduate research/degrees from the University of Minnesota, USA, and the College of Europe, Belgium.

He is married to Miriam, and they have two sons.