Organiser & Editor

Amédee Edward Turner, Queen’s Counsel, Honorary Member of the European Parliament

• Christ Church, Oxford MA
• Practice as Barrister at the Patent Bar, London 
  
• Associate at Kenyon and Kenyon Patent Attorneys, New York 1957-1960,
• Queen’s Counsel 1976
• Member of the European Parliament for Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, Conservative, 1979-1994
  • Vice-Chairman Legal Affairs Committee 1979-1984
  • Member of the Energy and Technology Committee 1984-1994, Spokesman
  • Member of the African-Caribbean and Pacific Council 1979-1994
  • Inaugurating Chairman of Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs Committee (Organised Crime, Europol, Immigration and Terrorism) 1992-1994
  • Member of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee 1979-1984
  • Member of the Transport Committee 1981-1984
  • Rapporteur of over 40 European Parliament Reports of the above Committees
  • Chief Whip European Democratic Group 1989-1992, negotiating fusion with European People’s Party
  • Bureau, European People’s Party 1992-1994

• Senior Counsel, Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly 1995-1999
• Executive Committee European League for Economic Corporation 1996-2002
• Senior Counsel, APCO Europe Ltd. 1995-1999
• Senior Counsel, WorldSpace UK Ltd 1999-2001
• Chairman of CJA Consulting 2006-
• Georgia- Chairman of Conference for the Georgian President on the economic potentialities 1998
• Advisor to the Russian Federation Patent Office 1997-1999
• Romania- Lectures and discussions with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Interior Affairs on justice and home affairs 2000
• Macedonia- Resident advisor to the Macedonian Parliament on democratic procedures 2001-2002
• Author of five Reports to the European Commission on industrial and intellectual property
• Member of Advisory Council of Anglican Observer to the United Nations 2002-2006
• Organiser and Editor of the Project and Report "Muslim Grassroots in the West Discuss Democracy", 2005-2007.
• Publications-
  • The Law of Trade Secrets 1964,1967 (Sweet & Maxwell, New York)
  • The Law of the European Patent 1979 (Garland, New York)
  • Manuals for the Macedonian Parliament on the Approximation of EU Laws  and on Democratic Procedures 2002
  • Numerous studies for the European Commission