Elizabeth Deirdre Doocey, Baroness Doocey
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Elizabeth Deirdre Doocey, Baroness Doocey OBE (born May 2, 1948 ) is a British politician of the Liberal Democrats and former leader of the London Assembly .
biography
She was born Elizabeth Deirdre O'Keefe in Drumcondra, Dublin . She is married to Jim Doocey, with whom she has a son.
During the late 1970s and 1980s, Doocey was Director of Finance and Administration for the Liberal Party . She was a council member in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames from 1986 to 1994 . She had been Dr Vince Cable's campaign manager since 1992 .
She was a member of the London Assembly from 2004 to 2012 . She was first in the district assembly of South West London and stood for election to the London Assembly in 2004, but lost with a difference of 4057 votes to the conservative challenger Tony Arbor . As fifth on the party list of the Liberal Party, she nevertheless entered the Assembly. She moved in again in 2008, but lost the 2012 election.
From 2010 to 2011 she was the Chair of the London Assembly and from 2011 to 2012 the Vice-Chair. From 2004 to 2010 and again from 2011 to 2012 she was the chair of the Committee for Economic Development, Culture, Sport and Tourism, which was responsible, among other things, for the preparation of the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Paralympics .
From 2006 to 2012 Doocey was a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority , the supervisory authority of the London police force . From 2011 to 2012 she was Chair of the Finance Committee and Chair of the Sub-Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. She represented the Mayor of London on the Home Office's Olympic Security Committee.
Before starting her political career, she ran a consulting firm, DD Enterprises.
On December 21, 2010 she was promoted to Life Peer as Baroness Doocey , of Hampton in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames . She sits for the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords .
Web links
- www.parliament.uk / ... Biography on the House of Lords website
- www.libdems.org.uk / ... Biography on the Liberal Democrats website
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Doocey, Elizabeth Deirdre, Baroness Doocey |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baroness Doocey (title); Doocey, Dee (short form) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Liberal Democrats politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1948 |