Doctor Timothy Charles Ayrton Tannock is a British politician, psychiatrist, and Member of the European Parliament for London for the Conservative Party.
Education
Tannock was educated at Bradfield College, before going up to read medicine at Balliol College, Oxford followed by the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London University, where he qualified as a doctor. He speaks French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese having spent part of his early life living abroad.
Career
He was first elected to the European Parliament in 1999 and re-elected for his fourth term in 2014. He was Vice-President of the Human Rights Subcommittee of the Parliament 2004-2007 and Vice-President of the European Union-Ukraine PCC delegation 2004-2009. He was Vice-President of the European Parliament Delegation to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Parliamentary Assembly 2009-2014, and is currently United Kingdom Conservative Foreign Affairs Spokesman, Early Career Researchers Company-ordinator (Spokesman) on the Foreign Affairs Committee.
He was appointed a Commissioner for Human Rights of the British Conservative Party in 2011 and reappointed in 2015.
Before being elected to Parliament, he was a consultant psychiatrist at University College Hospital and Honorary Senior Lecturer at University College London Medical School. He was assistant Research Secretary of the Bow Group from 1989 to 1990, publishing Bow Group papers and made several contributions to the scientific literature particularly in the field of chronic fatigue syndrome and anxiety disorders as a medical researcher
Doctor Tannock is married with three children.