Nicky Gavron
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Councillor Nicky Gavron AM |
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| Deputy Mayor of London | |
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In office 14 June 2004 – 4 May 2008 |
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| Mayor | Ken Livingstone |
| Preceded by | Jenny Jones |
| Succeeded by | Richard Barnes |
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In office 16 May 2000 – 16 May 2003 |
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| Mayor | Ken Livingstone |
| Preceded by | New office |
| Succeeded by | Jenny Jones |
| Member of the London Assembly for London-Wide | |
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Assumed office 10 June 2004 |
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| Preceded by | Jennette Arnold |
| Member of the London Assembly for Enfield and Haringey |
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In office 4 May 2000 – 10 June 2004 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Joanne McCartney |
| Personal details | |
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Felicia Nicolette Coates 24 November 1941 Worcester, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour Co-operative |
| Spouse(s) | Bob Gavron (div.) |
| Children | 4 |
| Residence | Highgate, London |
| Alma mater | Courtauld Institute |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Lecturer |
| Religion | Judaism |
| Website | http://www.nickygavron.co.uk/ |
Felicia Nicolette C. "Nicky" Gavron, née Coates is a British politician, former Deputy Mayor of London, a member of the London Assembly and the former Labour candidate for the 2004 Mayor of London elections.
Gavron was born in Worcester. She is the daughter of a German Jew who had fled Nazi Germany in 1936 as pressure on the Jewish community was mounting. In March 2008 she claimed that her mother was chosen to dance before Hitler in the opening ceremony of the 1936 Olympics, until the authorities discovered that she was Jewish.
She studied at Worcester Girls' Grammar School, followed by the study of the history of art at the Courtauld Institute in London. She then gained a job as a lecturer at the Camberwell School of Art in South London.
Gavron first became interested in politics in the 1970s when she campaigned against the widening of the Archway Road in London. In an interview with the Guardian she said, "It was in the days when everyone thought road widening was the answer, but the penny dropped for me that it was part of the problem."
In 1986, following the abolition of the Greater London Council, she was elected as a Labour councillor for Archway ward in the London Borough of Haringey. She was leader of the London Planning Advisory Committee from 1994 until it was absorbed into the Greater London Authority. She was elected London Assembly Member for Enfield and Haringey in the 2000 London Assembly election and was Deputy Mayor of London from May 2000 until June 2003, when the mayor, Ken Livingstone, appointed Jenny Jones, of the Green Party, to succeed her.
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