Lynda Chalker

Baroness Chalker of Wallasey, 2018

Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey PC (nee Bates * 29. April 1942 ) is a British Conservative politician who from 1974 to 1992 lower house deputies for Wallasey was. She was Minister of State for Overseas Development in the Foreign Office in the Conservative government from 1989 to 1997.

biography

Chalker went to the Roedean School in Brighton (where she was head girl ) and then studied at Heidelberg University , as well as in London at Queen Mary University and the Polytechnic of Central London (since 1992: University of Westminster ).

She began her professional career as a statistician and market analyst, temporarily at Shell-Mex and BP (a former joint marketing company of Shell and BP ) before moving into the House of Commons for Wallasey as the successor to former Minister Ernest Marples . She held a number of government posts including Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Health from 1979 to 1982 and in the Ministry of Transport from 1982 to 1983.

In 1983 she became Minister of State in the Ministry of Transport and in 1986 Minister of Europe. In the British general election in 1992 , however, she lost her seat in the lower house.

Chalker was raised to Life Peeress in 1992 as Baroness Chalker of Wallasey , of Leigh-on-Sea in the County of Essex, and is thus a member of the British aristocracy . At the same time it was thus a member of the upper house ( House of Lords ) .

In October 1993 she headed the British delegation that took part in the first TICAD (Tokyo International Conference on African Development).

Together with Kenneth Clarke , Malcolm Rifkind , Tony Newton and Patrick Mayhew, she is one of the longest-serving British politicians of the 20th century, who held offices for the Conservatives for 18 years.

The late Lady Diana was a good friend of the Baroness Chalker of Wallasey.

Extra-parliamentary activity

In February 2005, Lynda Chalker aroused mild controversy by criticizing Nigeria's negative media image and investment climate.

Lynda Chalker held a managerial position at Unilever from 1998 to 2007 , she was also a member of the Board of Directors of Merchant International Group and the Africa Board of Directors of the Russian Renaissance Capital .

Chalker is a member of the Global Leadership Foundation , an organization that promotes good governance around the world. She also chairs Medicines for Malaria Venture , a not-for-profit organization dedicated to alleviating the burden of malaria, and Africa Matters Limited , an independent consultancy that advises and supports companies in their activities in Africa. She is a member of the international boards of directors of Lafarge et Cie and Merchant Bridge International. Chalker also has a seat on the board of trustees of the Investment Climate Facility for Africa (ICF), an organization that wants to remove barriers in trade with Africa.

In June 2014 Chalker was given honorary citizenship of the Republic of Mozambique by President Armando Guebuza for services to this country.

Chalker was shortlisted for the 2015 Grassroot Diplomat Initiative Prize for her civil society work with Africa Matters and has since been listed in the Grassroot Diplomat Who's Who directory.

In 2018, Chalker succeeded Nicholas Crane as President of the Royal Geographical Society .

Web links

• Mrs Lynda Chalker at Hansard (English)
• Short biography at the Center for Advancement of Women in Politics (Engl.)

Individual evidence

1. ^ The London Gazette : No. 52907, p. 7461 , HMSO, April 29, 1992.
2. ↑ Japan, Ministry for Foreign Affairs: 12 donor countries + EC (Engl.)
3. ↑ Welcome to the GLF Global Leadership Foundation ( memento of the original from September 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Lynda, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey . Africa Matters. Archived from the original on January 23, 2011. Retrieved on May 24, 2009.
5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 22, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ^ Club of Mozambique , mentioned in the press release of July 18, 2016
7. ^ Grassroot Diplomat Who's Who . In: Grassroot Diplomat , March 15, 2015. Archived from the original on May 20, 2015. Retrieved April 2020.