Malcolm Fleming (SNP)
Malcolm Fleming (born?) is an anti-poverty campaigner and Scottish National Party Parliamentary Candidate for Glasgow South in the Next General Election. He was selected as Candidate for Glasgow South in 2007.
Early life
Fleming grew up in Lanarkshire and lives in Tantallon Road in Shawlands, Glasgow South.
He went to Biggar High School.
In 1996, he gained a BSc. (Hons) in Human Geography from the University of Aberdeen.
Charity work
Fleming is a specialist in international development and poverty reduction and has worked in Glasgow city centre as a senior campaigns manager for international aid agency Oxfam and previously as a press officer on the Make Poverty History Campaign. He has done charity work in places such as Malawi and was an aid worker in Sri Lanka during the 2004 Asian tsunami disaster.
Malcolm is a board member of Stop Climate Chaos Scotland, and the Scottish Fair Trade Forum.
Election and political career
He joined the SNP in 1994.
He spent a short time working as an assistant to Alex Salmond and was part of the SNP's Internet advisory group.
He was Parliamentary Assistant to then MEP Dr Allan Macartney from 1996 to 1997.
He was during 1997-2001 Senior Parliamentary Assistant to then MSP Alasdair Morgan.
In the 2001 UK election, he contested Galloway and Upper Nithsdale only to lose out by 74 votes.
He is Treasurer of the Glasgow SNP association.