Neena Gill, Baroness Gill (born 24 December 1956) is a British Labour Party politician. She served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the West Midlands first from 1999 to 2009, and then from 2014 to 2020.
Early life and career
Gill was born in Ludhiana, Punjab, India. Gill's first job was working in a library at the age of 16. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in social studies from Liverpool John Moores University in 1979. Representing the West Midlands between 1999 and 2009, Gill held various positions, including President of the Delegation for Relations with India and President of the Delegation for Relations with South Asia and SAARC countries. She was also a member of The Legal Affairs Committee and of the Budgets Committee.
Gill was unsuccessful in her bid to be re-elected for a third term as MEP in 2009. During her time outside of parliament, she worked as the vice president for corporate affairs (Europe and Asia Pacific) for software company SAS.
thumb|left|Gill in 2017 discussing Brexit and India
In 2014, she was re-elected as one of two Labour MEPs (the other being Siôn Simon) for the West Midlands. During this term, she was a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, special committee on tax rulings, financial crimes, tax evasion and avoidance, and part of the delegation for relations with India and the United States. She was particularly active on financial regulation and was the rapporteur for the 2015 European Money Market Funds (MMF) Regulation.
In 2017, Gill was one of two UK winners (the other being Conservative MP Priti Patel) of the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, the highest honour given to NRIs by the Indian government. In the same year, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours. In July 2018, Gill became an honorary fellow of Liverpool John Moores University.
She was re-elected in the 2019 European parliamentary election as the sole Labour MEP for the West Midlands. Gill remained a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. In September 2019, Gill joined the delegation for relations with Japan as Chair and the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly as Vice-Chair and S&D Co-ordinator.
In 2024, she was selected as the Labour Party candidate in the Bromsgrove constituency at the 2024 general election. She came second in the contest, receiving 26.8% of the vote share.
In December 2025, as part of the 2025 Political Peerages, Gill was nominated for a life peerage to sit in the House of Lords as a Labour peer; she was created as Baroness Gill, of the Jewellery Quarter in the City of Birmingham and of Southall in the London Borough of Ealing on 14 January 2026.
Personal life
She married Dr. John Towner, an environmental consultant, in 1982 and they have one son. They divorced in 2009.