Justine Greening

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Justine Greening is the Economic Secretary to the Treasury. She has been the Conservative MP for Putney, Roehampton and Southfields since May 2005.[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 tanks the Bow Group.[3]

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. [4]


Notes

  1. Full list of new cabinet ministers and other government appointments, guardian.co.uk, 13 May 2010.
  2. Justine Greening About Justine, accessed 12 April 2011.
  3. Bow Group History, accessed 20 August 2011
  4. Justine Green About Justine, accessed 12 April 2011.