Geoffrey Van Orden has been a Conservative Member of the European Parliament for the East of England for almost three decades. He is currently the Chairman of the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with India and was previously Chairman of the
Europe-India Chamber of Commerce (2010-2014), and a founding member of the Parliament’s Friends of India Group. He is also the Vice-Chairman of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), the third largest political group in the European Parliament and is the founding President of its think tank, New Direction – The Foundation for European Reform.