Joan Mary Ruddock

Joan Mary Ruddock

Dame Joan Mary Ruddock , DBE (born December 28, 1943 in Pontypool ) is a Welsh Labor Party politician and former leader of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament .

biography

After completing school in Wales , she studied at Imperial College London . From 1968 to 1973 she worked for the national campaign against homelessness “Shelter” before she was director of an aid center for people looking for accommodation in Oxford until 1977 . From 1977 to 1981 she was an advisor for unemployed youth at the Manpower Services Commission (MSC), an agency of the Department of Labor coordinating the training and employment of workers.

In 1981 she was then chairman of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and held this office until 1985. In 1987 she was elected as a candidate for the Labor Party as a member of the lower house . Immediately afterwards she was already one of the leading opposition politicians ("frontbencher") of her party. In the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair , she was briefly junior minister in the Ministry of Women from 1997 to 1998.

She returned to government under Prime Minister Gordon Brown in June 2007 and was appointed Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. As such, she was responsible for biodiversity , climate change , waste management and forestry . In October 2008, she moved to the newly created Department of Energy and Climate Change as Parliamentary Undersecretary with the same responsibility. In June 2009 she finally became Minister of State for this ministry as part of another government reshuffle and as such is responsible for energy policy .

Ruddock is married to MP Frank Doran .

Publications

• The CND Story, 1983
• CND Scrapbook, 1987
• Voices for One World, 1988

swell

• Chambers Biographical Dictionary, pp. 1316, 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2