Dr Timothy Charles Ayrton Tannock (born 25 September 1957) is a British psychiatrist, Conservative Party politician and former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for London. 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. He is a dual British and Irish citizen. Political career Tannock 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 2004–07 and Vice-President of the EU-Ukraine PCC delegation 2004–09. He was Vice-President of the EP Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly 2009–14, and was the UK Conservative Foreign Affairs Spokesman 2002–2019, and ECR Co-ordinator (Spokesman) 2009–2019 on the Foreign Affairs Committee. He was President of the Friends of Taiwan Group 2004-9 and was adviser to the UK Overseas Territories Association in the European Parliament, and was Vice-Chairman of European Friends of Israel 2006–11. He was President of the European Parliament Friends of Kurdistan 2014–2019. He was appointed a Commissioner for Human Rights of the British Conservative Party in 2011 and reappointed in 2015. The Sunday Times carried a two page spread on Dr Tannock https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tory-mep-kept-energy-share-options-secret-c8prkt735t2 Tannock reported the Sunday Thames to the Press Complaints Commission http://www.pcc.org.uk/cases/adjudicated.html?article=Nzg4OA== but his complaint was rejected and the Sunday Times was vindicated in making claims that share options were not effectively declared in a now liquidated fracking company but had made it clear that the EU Parliament authorities had cleared Tannock of any breach of its rules on declaration of members' interests. Tannock was Rapporteur, shadow Rapporteur and co-author on numerous Reports and Joint Resolutions of the European Parliament over his 20 years as MEP. Notably in 2004 he was Rapporteur on the AFET Committee for the European Neighbourhood Policy Report and again in 2007 AFET Rapporteur for the Eastern Partnership Dimension of the ENP. In 2006 he was responsible as Rapporteur on the ECON Committee for the Report setting out Tax and Duty Free Allowances imported by travellers from third countries, still in force to date. In 2008 he was AFET Rapporteur for the opinion on the EU-India Free Trade Agreement. In 2012 he was AFET Rapporteur for the EU strategy