Education
He studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and gained a Bachelor in Archaeology and Anthropology in 1988. From Bristol Polytechnic, he gained an Master of Science in Information Technology in 1990.
He studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and gained a Bachelor in Archaeology and Anthropology in 1988. From Bristol Polytechnic, he gained an Master of Science in Information Technology in 1990.
He was made a life peer in the 2010 Dissolution Honours. He went to the independent Oundle School in north-east Northamptonshire. He was a field archaeologist in Britain, France and the Netherlands in 1984-1985, and in Ecuador in 1988-1989.
He was a computer manager at Avon FHSA in 1991-1997.
In 2001, he was re-elected with an increased majority of 9,347. During his tenure, Allan held various committee seats, including the Chair of the House of Commons Information Select Committee and a seat on the House of Commons Liaison Select Committee.
Richard Allan was the founding chairman of the Parthenon 2004 campaign for the return of the Parthenon Marbles. Allan did not seek reelection at the 2005 general election.
He was succeeded by future Liberal Democratic leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, for whom he acted as campaign manager.
On 22 July 2010, he was created a life peer as Baron Allan of Hallam, of Ecclesall in the County of South Yorkshire, and was introduced in the House of Lords on 26 July 2010, where he sits as a Liberal Democrat peer. Since June 2009 Allan has been employed by Facebook as Director of Policy in Europe, responsible for representing the company and lobbying European Union governments on matters of concern to lieutenant He was previously Head of Government Affairs for Cisco Systems United Kingdom. He is also a visiting fellow of the Oxford Internet Institute and deputy chairman of the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles.
Allan has given various interviews responding to media concerns about Facebook, and in January 2012 he gave evidence to the Leveson Inquiry on Facebook"s attitude to malicious posting and to privacy.
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He was the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam from the general election of Thursday 1 May 1997 until the dissolution of Parliament on 11 April 2005.