Tom Lyne was educated at the Universities of Reading,
Warwick and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris.  He has
taught at the Universities of Limerick (Ireland) and Portsmouth
(England) and been a visiting lecturer at the Universite de
Paris-X.  He has advised the British Labour Party and for many
years was chief European advisor to Nobel Prize-winner John
Hume MP,  MEP, the principal architect of the Irish peace process.