Fiona Hall

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Fiona Jane Hall MBE (born Cutts, born July 15, 1955 in Swinton , Greater Manchester ) is a British politician of the Liberal Democrats and a member of the European Parliament .

Fiona Hall (2008)

Life

She studied modern languages ​​at St Hugh's College, Oxford University until 1977 and then worked as a teacher in Botswana until 1979 . From 1986 to 1995 she worked part-time as a teacher in Northumberland, and later worked as an advisor to Liberal Democrats on Newcastle City Council and the British House of Commons . She also worked as an activist in the anti-nuclear movement . In 2001 she was an election observer in Kosovo on behalf of the OSCE .

In the 2004 European elections , Hall was elected to the European Parliament , where she belongs to the liberal ALDE group. In 2007 she headed the election observer delegation of the European Parliament in the parliamentary elections of Togo . Since 2008 she has been Vice President of the European Forum for Renewable Energy Sources (EUFORES), an organization for the promotion of renewable energies , which includes members of parliament from the European Parliament and the national parliaments of the EU.

In the 2009 European elections , Hall was re-elected with the best result of any British Liberal Democrat. She is a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy as well as the Delegation for relations with the Pan-African Parliament and the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. She is a deputy in the Development Committee and in the delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the EUFORES website [1] .
  2. ^ Website of the European Parliament
personal data
SURNAME Hall, Fiona
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hall, Fiona Jane; Cutts, Fiona (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician (Lib Dems), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Swinton , Greater Manchester