Vince Cable
Vince Cable is the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.[1] He is the Liberal Democrat MP for Twickenham. [2]
History
Cable served in the Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet as spokesman on trade and industry from 1999 to 2003. Followed by a role as shadow chancellor from 2003 to 2010. He was deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2006 to 2010. [2]
Outside of Politics, Cable worked as treasury finance officer for the Kenyan Government between 1966 and 1968. From 1968 to 1974 he was a lecturer in economics at Glasgow University. He then worked in a range of senior economic and foreign policy roles, before becoming Shell International’s chief economist in 1995. [2]
Education
Cable attended Nunthorpe Grammar School before going to York and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he studied natural science and economics and was President of the Union. He then studied for a PhD at Glasgow University. [2]
Special advisers
PPS
- Tessa Munt, MP, was parliamentary private secretary to Cable from 2011 to January 2015, when she resigned after supporting a Commons vote on a fracking moratorium in the UK
Affiliations
- Politeia - Westminster Advisory Council
- Kathrine Bancroft - now at lobbying firm PLMR
Notes
- ↑ Her Majesty’s Government, Number10.gov.uk, accessed 12 May 2010.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 The Rt Hon Dr Vince Cable MP GOV.UK, accessed 1 October 2014
