Alan Donnelly
Alan was first elected to the European Parliament in 1989, representing the constituency of Tyne and Wear, re-elected to a second term in 1994 and finally elected to represent the North East of England in 1999. He was Leader of the Labour Party in Europe until his retirement from the EU Parliament in January 2000.
Alan worked extensively on sustainability, global health and development field, and in 2017 launched the “G20 Global Health Partnership Initiative,” in consultation with international health stakeholders. On the basis of the success to bring together key global health stakeholders from the public, academic and private space, Alan and the co-sponsor fundamentally contributed to bringing global health challenges on the G20 leader’s agenda and the G20 (2017) communiqué. Following an increasing interest to maintain and build the momentum of this initiative, Alan has created Sovereign Sustainability and Development (SSD) in late 2017 that act as the convener and secretariat of “The G20 & G& Health and Development Partnership”.
In February 2000, Alan Donnelly became the Executive Chairman of his own company, Sovereign Strategy.