Speaker Details
Alyn Smith
MEP, Member of the European Parliament for Scotland
Elected to the European Parliament for the first time in 2004 and re-elected in the SNP victory in the 2009 election, Alyn is Scotland's youngest MEP.
After beginning his career in London as a lawyer with commercial law firm Clifford Chance, Alyn moved back to Scotland working first for a legal firm in Edinburgh and from 2002 for Richard Lochhead MSP then the SNP Group at Holyrood as an adviser on European, Justice and Business policies.
In Parliament, he is a full member of the Agriculture Committee and won the coveted Scottish Farmer Magazine award for "Outstanding Contribution to Scottish Agriculture" at the Highland Show in 2009. He is an alternate member of the Education and Culture Committee in addition to the Constitutional Affairs Committee.
He is a full member of the Delegation for relations with the Arabian Peninsula, and also sits as alternate member on the Parliament's Delegation for Relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway.
