John Grogan
Labour Party politician
Mongolian British Chamber of Commerce
Biography:
A former Member of Parliament, John has been a great friend of the CIS for many years. He is a British Labour Party politician who was an MP for Selby between 1997 and 2010 and Keighley from 2017 to 2019. He is currently the chair of the Mongolian British Chamber of Commerce.
Born in Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, John was educated at St Michael’s RC College, a Jesuit school in Leeds and St John’s College, Oxford. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Modern History and Economics in 1982, and also served as the first President of the Oxford University Student Union, the first to be elected on a Labour Party (UK) platform.
He worked with the Leeds City Council, and the Labour Party in various capacities including the Labour Party press officer in the European Parliament at Brussels.