Marina Yannakoudakis
| Marina Yannakoudakis | |
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| Member of the European Parliament for London |
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In office 4 June 2009 – 2 July 2014 |
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| Preceded by | John Bowis |
| Succeeded by | Lucy Anderson |
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16 April 1956 Paddington, London, England, United Kingdom |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Zacharias Yannakoudakis |
| Alma mater |
Brunel University Open University |
| Website | Official website |
Marina Yannakoudakis (born 16 April 1956) is a member of the European Economic and Social Committee and a former Conservative Member of the European Parliament for London. She was elected at the 2009 European Parliament election. She lost her seat at the 2014 election.
Yannakoudakis was born in Paddington. She studied for a BSc in government, politics and modern history at Brunel University, where she was chairman of the Conservative students, and also received an MA in education from the Open University.
She was a member of Barnet London Borough Council for Oakleigh Park Ward from 2006 to 2010 where she was chair of the Cleaner, Greener, Transport and Development Overview & Scrutiny Committee.
She was a full member of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and a substitute member of the Special Committee on Organised Crime, Corruption and Money Laundering. She was a member of the Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee.
She was also a member of the High-Level Contact Group for relations with the Turkish Cypriot community in the northern part of the island and was the Conservative and the European Conservatives and Reformists spokesman on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.
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