Molly Scott Cato
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Molly Scott Cato MEP |
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Scott Cato questioning Jean-Claude Juncker at an open hearing hosted by the Green-EFA group on 9 July 2014
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| Member of the European Parliament for South West England |
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Assumed office 1 July 2014 |
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| Born | 21 May 1963 |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Green Party of England and Wales |
| Spouse(s) | unknown |
| Domestic partner | Chris Busby (approx 1992–2004) |
| Children | three |
| Residence | Stroud, Gloucestershire |
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| Profession | Green economist |
| Religion | Quaker |
Sarah Margaret 'Molly' Scott Cato (born 21 May 1963) is a British Green politician, academic, environmental and community activist, and green economist who is the current Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the South West England electoral region for the Green Party. She was elected in May 2014, and is the first Green Party MEP to represent the region. From 2012 until her election as MEP, she was Professor of Strategy and Sustainability at the University of Roehampton. Scott Cato speaks for the Green Party on finance issues, and is well known in the field of co-operative studies. She has published widely on green economics, localism and anti-capitalism, and has contributed to works on the risks of nuclear power, the use of which she strongly opposes.
Scott Cato was born in Wales, and grew up in Bath, attending Bath High School for Girls, before reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Oxford, where her stated areas of interest included "the politics of Latin America and international politics". After working in the publishing industry, in 2001 she earned her Ph.D. from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (now Aberystwyth University) with a thesis on employment policy in the South Wales Valleys, including research into the Tower Colliery workers' co-operative. Her book, The Pit and the Pendulum, is based on this research. She holds an MSc in advanced social research methods from the Open University.
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