Justine Greening
Justine Greening is the Secretary of State for Transport.[1]
Education and Career
Greening studied economics at Southampton University and has an MBA from the London Business School. She trained as an accountant, working for PricewaterhouseCoopers and GlaxoSmithKline, and was a finance manager at Centrica before being elected as an MP. [2] Greening is also a former member of the Council of the Tory think tank the Bow Group.[3]
Greening been the Conservative MP for Putney, Roehampton and Southfields since May 2005.[4]
Greening has been a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee; was a Shadow Treasury Minister from 2007, and in 2009 moved to the Communities and Local Government Team and became Shadow Minister for London. [5]
Greening was appointed Economic Secretary to the Treasury in the incoming Conservative government in May 2010.[6] She replaced Philip Hammond as Transport Secretary on 14 October 2011, following the resignation of Liam Fox as Defence Secretary.[7]
Affiliations
- Served on the Bow Group think tank's council.
Notes
- ↑ Details of Ministerial appointments have been announced., Number 10.gov.uk, 16 October 2011.
- ↑ Justine Greening About Justine, accessed 12 April 2011.
- ↑ Bow Group History, accessed 20 August 2011
- ↑ Full list of new cabinet ministers and other government appointments, guardian.co.uk, 13 May 2010.
- ↑ Justine Green About Justine, accessed 12 April 2011.
- ↑ Full list of new cabinet ministers and other government appointments, guardian.co.uk, 13 May 2010.
- ↑ Full list of new cabinet ministers and other government appointments, guardian.co.uk, 13 May 2010.
