Background
Gethins was born and brought up in Perth, and was educated at Perth Academy.
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Stephen Gethins
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He graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Dundee in 1998, specialising in public international law. He also holds a Master of Research from the University of Kent.
Career
He worked in the non-governmental organization Sector specialising in peace-building, arms control and democracy in the Caucasus and the Balkans regions. He worked with non-governmental organization Links in Tbilisi focusing on the conflicts surrounding the breakaway entities in the South Caucasus such as South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh. He also worked for Saferworld on arms control, peace-building and democratisation in the former Soviet Union and Balkans.
Stephen was appointed a Special Adviser to Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond, advising on European and International Affairs as well as Rural Affairs, Energy and Climate Change and subsequently advised Nicola Sturgeon.
He was a Political Advisor with the Committee of the Regions in the European Union, a position which saw him working with local authorities from across Europe. He also worked at Scotland Europa, helping Scottish organisations gain influence and funding in the European Union. He was on the list of Scottish National Party candidates for the six Scottish seats in the 2014 European Parliament election, although only the first two Scottish National Party candidates were elected.
He was selected to contest the 2015 general election in the North East Fife constituency.
Politics
He polled 18,523 (409% of the vote) and received a majority of 4,344 over the Liberal Democrats, whose outgoing Member of Parliament, Sir Menzies Campbell, had retired.
Membership
56th United Kingdom Parliament]
Stephen Gethins is a member of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee (its first Scottish National Party member) and the Scottish National Party Spokesperson on Europe at Westminster.
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