claude moraes

Claude Moraes MEP was elected to the European Parliament for London in 1999 and again in 2004 where he led the London List of candidates. He was one of the first Asian MEPs and London’s first ethnic minority MEP.  Claude was previously Director of JCWI, the national migration and refugee charity and Chief Executive of the Immigrants’ Aid Trust.

Before that, he was a national officer at the TUC, a representative to the European TUC in Brussels,  House of Commons adviser to MPs John Reid and Paul Boateng, and a CRE Commissioner. With a legal background, he has campaigned and written widely on human rights issues including recently co-authoring the ‘Politics of Migration’ (Blackwells). In the European Parliament he is Labour spokesperson on Employment and Social Affairs and a member of the Justice and Home Affairs Committee.

In addition to his parliamentary committees, Claude is President of the Intergroup on Anti-Racism and Diversity, Co-President of the Intergroup on Ageing, and active on the issues of regeneration and social exclusion; older peoples’ issues, human rights; employment rights; international development issues; and justice and home affairs issues including migration, people-trafficking, European police cooperation and the  Far Right in Europe. An elected member of Labour’s National Policy Forum, he is currently on the Health Policy Commission.