Beverley Nielsen
| Beverley Nielsen | |
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| Born | 25 January 1960 |
| Profession | Executive Director Institute of Design and Economic Acceleration (IDEA) |
| Website | www |
Beverley Nielsen (born 25 January 1960), is an entrepreneur, educator and campaigner who works as executive director, Institute of Design and Economic Acceleration (IDEA) at Birmingham City University. She has previously worked as a director for AGA Rangemaster, and as managing director for Fired Earth. In 2016 Nielsen was selected as the Liberal Democrat Candidate for the Mayor of the West Midlands, but was defeated in the May 2017 mayoral election by Conservative candidate Andy Street.
Nielsen married Robert Emmerson in 1992 and they have three children, Niels, Charlie, and Amelia.
Nielsen was born in Malvern Worcestershire where her mother, Ethel Mary Nielsen, was, for a period, a teacher at Malvern Girls’ College and her father, Dr Stanley Nielsen, was a research chemist at the Royal Radar Establishment (now known as Qinetiq). Following this he and his young family relocated to Ireland where he worked for the National Board of Science and Technology, the organisation with central responsibility for national science and technology (later reformed as part of Eolas).
Nielsen attended the Grove Primary School, Malvern, and following the family’s move to Ireland she was educated at Glengara Park School, later becoming Rathdown School, Glenageary and St Columba’s College, Rathfarnham, Dublin, before attending Trinity College Dublin where she completed a degree in Law, following which she completed a Master's degree in Business Studies from University College Dublin, completing her dissertation on the International Marketing of Irish Designer Fashion.
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