Background
Seb was born in Roehampton, in the London Borough of Wandsworth.
Member of the European Parliament politician
Seb was born in Roehampton, in the London Borough of Wandsworth.
He studied at the University of Manchester.
He was elected in 2014. He sits on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and the Committee on Development. Following his studies, he was a sabbatical officer at the Manchester Student Union, leading campaigns and overseeing student participation in the merger between the Victoria University of Manchester and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.
Prior to becoming an Member of the European Parliament, Seb Dance worked for the development charity ActionAid United Kingdom, working on campaigns for structural changes to alleviate poverty and hunger around the world.
He led a long-running campaign against tax avoidance by large multi-national companies. Before joining ActionAid United Kingdom he worked for TLG, a small communications company working with clients in the public, private and voluntary sector on a range of campaigns.
Before this he worked as an advisor to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland between 2007 and 2009, when the final parts of devolution as part of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement – policing and criminal justice powers – were being delivered by the Labour Government. Seb Dance was elected to the in 2014.
On entering the, he was appointed to the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, responsible for a wide range of policy areas including air and water pollution, waste management, and climate change.
He also sits on the Committee on Development, overseeing the spending commitments and priorities of the European Union’s development budget. Seb was appointed as a shadow rapporteur for the revision of the National Emissions Ceiling Directive, which aims to improve levels of air quality by regulating the emissions of harmful pollutants. This is particularly important issue for London, where over 3,000 people are dying prematurely each year as a result of exposure to poor air quality.
He is also a shadow rapporteur on a proposal for an integrated approach to tackle the link between conflict and the trade of minerals extracted from affected areas.