Malcolm Fleming is an anti-poverty campaigner and was Scottish National Party Parliamentary Candidate for Glasgow South[1] in the 2010 UK General Election. He was selected as Candidate for Glasgow South in 2007.[2]
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Fleming grew up in Lanarkshire and lives in Tantallon Road in Shawlands, Glasgow South.[2]
He went to Biggar High School.[3]
In 1996, he gained a BSc. (Hons) in Human Geography from the University of Aberdeen.[3]
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[4] and previously as a press officer on the Make Poverty History Campaign.[5] He has done charity work in places such as Malawi[6] and was an aid worker in Sri Lanka[7] during the 2004 Asian tsunami disaster.[8]
Malcolm is a former board member of Stop Climate Chaos Scotland, and a current board member of the Scottish Fair Trade Forum.[2]
He joined the SNP in 1994.[2]
He spent a short time working as an assistant to Alex Salmond[2] and was part of the SNP's Internet advisory group.[9]
He was Parliamentary Assistant to then MEP Dr Allan Macartney from 1996 to 1997.[3]
From 1997-2001 he was Senior Parliamentary Assistant to MP, then MSP Alasdair Morgan.[3]
In the 2001 UK election, he contested Galloway and Upper Nithsdale only to lose out by 74 votes.[3][10]