Terence Wynn (born 27 June 1946) is a former British politician who served in the European Parliament. Early life and education Born in Wigan, Wynn was educated at Leigh College, Riversdale College, Liverpool Polytechnic and Salford University. He became a marine engineer, with a Combined Chief Engineer's Certificate and later obtained a Master of Science Degree. Career He was a Member of the European Parliament; he held the European Constituency of Merseyside East from 1989 to 1994, Merseyside East and Wigan from 1994 to 1999, and from 1999 until 2006 represented the North West counties of England with a 7 million population, one of the 3 Labour Party Members out of a total of 9 MEPs for the region under a proportional voting system. From 1999 to 2004 he held the position of President of the Budget Committee in the European Parliament, which oversaw the, then, €110bn budget of the EU. In this role he was Head of Parliament delegations when negotiating the budget with the Finance Ministers of the 25 Member States which occurred several times each financial year. Responsible also for Parliamentary reports on the future financing of the EU. He was vice-chairman to the president of the European Parliament (therefore de facto chairman) of the Parliament's temporary committee on "Policy Challenges and Budgetary Means of the Enlarged Union from 2007-2013". He also co-chaired the committee of inquiry into allegations of misuse of EU funds by the Palestinian Authority. Prior to being president of the committee, he was the majority leader (i.e. co-ordinator) for his political group for 5 years. Before that he had been general Budget Rapporteur (i.e. the immember responsible for setting out Parliament's position on the budget – the lead player) for two consecutive budgets. His special interests included reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, (he was chairman of an all-party, cross nationality grouping of MEPs which campaigned for agriculture reform), Development Aid, where he had a specific interest in South Africa and has written a Parliamentary Report on the funding of the EU Special Programme during the apartheid years. He strongly advocated the case for nuclear power and chaired the Forum for the Future of Nuclear Energy within the European Parliament. On this subject he was invited to speak at various European gatherings, visited nuclear installations in the Czech Republic, Lithuania and Sweden, and has been a keynote speaker at a conference in Tokyo