Keynote Speaker, 2011 CEI Annual Dinner


Biography

Daniel Hannan is a writer and journalist. He has been a Conservative MEP for South East England since 1999, winning re-election in the top slot in 2004 and 2009. In the European Parliament, he led the campaign for a referendum on the European Constitution. He was also the first MEP to write in detail about the allowances and expenses available in Brussels.

In March 2009, a YouTube clip of his speech to Gordon Brown in the European Parliament attracted 1.4 million hits within 72 hours making it by far the most watched political clip in British history.

Daniel was educated at Marlborough and Oriel College, Oxford. He worked as a speechwriter for William Hague and Michael Howard. He speaks French and Spanish, and is married with two young children.

 

Published Work

Daniel has been writing for The Daily Telegraph since 1996, and also contributes to numerous other publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Times, The Washington Examiner, The Spectator, The Mail on Sunday, The Australian, The Catholic Herald, Die Welt (Germany) and Weltwoche (Switzerland).

He is the author of nine books of which the most recent – The New Road to Serfdom: A Letter of Warning to America – is a New York Times best-seller. TV presentation / Media experience Daniel blogs every day at www.hannan.co.uk, addressing political and cultural issues. His blog attracts 200,000 hits a week from 80,000 unique users.