| 词条 | Kishwer Falkner, Baroness Falkner of Margravine |
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| name= The Baroness Falkner of Margravine | honorific-suffix = | image=Official portrait of Baroness Falkner of Margravine crop 2.jpg | office = Member of the House of Lords {{small|Lord Temporal}} | term_start = 2 June 2004 {{small|Life Peerage}} | term_end = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1955|03|09|df=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = British | spouse = | party = Liberal Democrats | relations = | children = | residence = | alma_mater = London School of Economics University of Kent | occupation = | profession = | religion = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}Kishwer Falkner, Baroness Falkner of Margravine (née Khan; born 9 March 1955) is a British Liberal Democrat politician and life peer. She is the Chairman of the EU Financial Affairs Sub-Committee in the House of Lords.[1] Prior to her ennoblement as a life peer with the title Baroness Falkner of Margravine, of Barons Court in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham on 2 June 2004,[2] Falkner worked in a variety of jobs for the Liberal Democrats in the House of Commons and the party headquarters including as Director of International Affairs and Director of Policy. She has also worked at the Commonwealth Secretariat and as Chief Executive of Student Partnerships Worldwide. In February 2008 she was appointed as the inaugural chancellor of The University of Northampton. LifeKishwer Falkner was born in Pakistan and after living and working in the Middle East, moved to the UK in the late 1970s. Falkner was educated at convent schools in Pakistan, the London School of Economics where she obtained a BSc (Econ) in International Relations and the University of Kent where she obtained an MA in International Relations and European Studies. Political careerShe joined the Liberal Democrats in the mid-1980s and worked for the party in several posts till 1999. Falkner contested Kensington and Chelsea in the 2001 General Election and was on the Liberal Democrats list for London in the 2004 European elections. Kishwer was the Liberal Democrats’ Director of International and European Affairs for several years, co-authoring much of the Party’s policy on the European Union, and coordinating a joint response for European Liberals on issues related to Europe’s structures and place in the world. Kishwer also worked for the Commonwealth Secretariat, where she continued to work on the broader issues of globalisation, democracy and development. Most recently,{{when|date=March 2017}} Kishwer was chief executive of a charity working with young people in some of the poorest parts of Africa and Asia. Personal lifeKishwer is married to Robert Falkner, an academic at the London School of Economics, and they have one daughter, Sophia, who is currently studying Economic History and Economics at the London School of Economics.{{cn|date=August 2018}} References1. ^{{cite web|title=Baroness Falkner|url=http://www.libdems.org.uk/people_detail.aspx?name=Baroness_Falkner&pPK=e700ce49-c557-485b-b3a2-bfbf7e179555|publisher=Liberal Democrats|accessdate=15 September 2013}} 2. ^{{London Gazette |issue=57309 |date=7 June 2004 |page=7059}} External links
9 : Female life peers|Liberal Democrats (UK) life peers|Alumni of the London School of Economics|Alumni of the University of Kent|1955 births|Living people|Pakistani emigrants to the United Kingdom|British politicians of Pakistani descent|Liberal Democrats (UK) parliamentary candidates |
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