Jane Brophy

Jane Brophy
Brophy in 2016
Trafford Metropolitan Borough Councillor
for Timperley
Assumed office
1 May 2008
Preceded byKen Bullman
Member of the European Parliament
for North West England
In office
2 July 2019  31 January 2020
Preceded bySajjad Karim
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Trafford Metropolitan Borough Councillor
for Village
In office
1 May 2003  4 May 2007
Preceded byB. Ackroyd
Succeeded byHelen Bowker
Personal details
Born (1963-08-27) 27 August 1963
Manchester, Lancashire, England
Political partyLiberal Democrats
Residence(s)Timperley, Greater Manchester
Alma materUniversity of Leeds
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionDietician

Jane Elisabeth Brophy (born 27 August 1963) is a British politician who was a Liberal Democrats Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North West England between 2019 and the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU on 31 January 2020. She sat as a full member on the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and the Delegation for relations with the Federative Republic of Brazil. Brophy also sat as a substitute member on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and Delegation for relations with Afghanistan.

She is a councillor and Liberal Democrat Deputy Group Leader on Trafford Council and was the Liberal Democrat candidate in the 2017 Greater Manchester mayoral election, coming third with 6% of the vote. She is a member of the executive of Green Liberal Democrats. She stood as a Liberal Democrat in parliamentary elections for Eccles in 2005, Altrincham and Sale West in 2010, 2015 and 2017, and a by-election in Oldham West and Royton in 2015. She contested Altrincham and Sale West in the 2024 general election but came in fourth place.

Brophy is a dietician who specialises in the management of diabetes, and she has worked for the National Health Service (NHS). She is a member of the British Dietetic Association board. She has a degree in biochemistry.