Michael Cashman

• Secondary education. Actor, writer, singer, director, and television, theatre and film actor (1963-1999).
• Auditor.
• Member of the Labour Party since 1975.
• Member, Labour Party National Executive Committee (1998- ). Councillor and Honorary Treasurer, British Actors' Equity Association (1994-1998).
• Member of the European Parliament (since 1999).
• Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Petitions.
• Member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly
• European Parliaments Rapporteur on Public Access to Documents (2001) (2008-)
• Special service award, American Association of Physicians for Human Rights (1998). Founding Director of the Stonewall Group. Patron of PressWise, Foodchain and SPACE (AIDS Counselling). Gibraltar Gay Rights, The European Policy Network, Malta Gay Rights Movement, Friends and Families for Lesbians and Gays. Trustee of the Evelyn Norris Trust.
• Awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Staffordshire University (UK) for his work on Human Rights and Civil Liberties
• Publications: forewords to 'Cultura emprendedora y la Unión Europea' by Marcelino Oreja Arburua, and 'Pro Europe' (Verlag MVV Medien). Plays: Before Your Very Eyes, and Bricks 'n' Mortar.