Justine Greening
Justine Greening was appointed the Secretary of State for International Development in September 2012.[1]
She had previously been appointed Secretary of State for Transport in October 2011.[2]
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. [3] Greening is also a former member of the Council of the Tory think tank the Bow Group.[4]
Greening been the Conservative MP for Putney, Roehampton and Southfields since May 2005.[5]
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. [6]
Greening was appointed Economic Secretary to the Treasury in the incoming Conservative government in May 2010.[7] She replaced Philip Hammond as Transport Secretary on 14 October 2011, following the resignation of Liam Fox as Defence Secretary.[8]
Dinner with lobbyists
A seating plan of the Conservative Party's Black and White Ball, in February 2014, was leaked to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in October 2014. The party, which guests pay between £450 and £1000 for a ticket, seats diners with the minister most relevant to them. It is reported that Greening sat with a contractor for the Department for International Development (DIFID) and two executives from Salamanca Group. [9]
Affiliations
- Served on the Bow Group think tank's council.
Notes
- ↑ The Reshuffled Cabinet, telegraph.co.uk, 4 September 2012.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Warren, T., Newman M. and Mathiason N. Tycoons mix with top Tories at fundraising ball in London The Guardian, 12 October 2014, accessed 14 October 2014
