About Sharon Bowles Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Sharon became an MEP in May 2005, and was re-elected for a second Parliamentary term, top of the Lib Dem list, in June 2009. She sits as part of the ALDE group in the Parliament. In 2009 Sharon made history by being elected as the first Liberal and first Briton to Chair the Parliament's influential Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee (ECON)