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Susan Kramer

The Right Honourable
The Baroness Kramer
PC
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Liberal Democrats Treasury Spokesman
Assumed office
16 July 2015
Leader Tim Farron
Preceded by Danny Alexander
Minister of State for Transport
In office
7 October 2013 – 8 May 2015
Prime Minister David Cameron
Preceded by Norman Baker
Succeeded by Andrew Jones
Liberal Democrats Transport Spokesman
In office
7 January 2015 – 16 July 2015
Leader Nick Clegg
Preceded by Norman Baker (2010)
Succeeded by Baroness Randerson
In office
January 2006 – December 2007
Leader Sir Menzies Campbell
Vince Cable (Acting)
Preceded by Tom Brake
Succeeded by Norman Baker
Liberal Democrats Cabinet Office and Duchy of Lancaster Spokesman
In office
December 2007 – January 2009
Leader Nick Clegg
Preceded by Norman Baker
Succeeded by Jenny Willott
Member of Parliament
for Richmond Park
In office
6 May 2005 – 12 April 2010
Preceded by Jenny Tonge
Succeeded by Zac Goldsmith
Personal details
Born Susan Veronica Richards
(1950-07-21) 21 July 1950 (age 66)
Holborn, London, United Kingdom
Political party Liberal Democrats
Spouse(s) John Davis Kramer (1972-2006, his death); 2 children
Education St Paul's Girls' School
Alma mater University of Oxford
Profession Politician
Religion None
Website Susan Kramer

Susan Veronica Kramer, Baroness Kramer, PC (née Richards; born 21 July 1950) is a British Liberal Democrat politician. She was Member of Parliament (MP) for Richmond Park from 2005 to 2010, prior to that having a career in infrastructure finance and in 2000 having been a candidate in the London mayoral election.

Susan Veronica Richards was born in Holborn, London, on 22 July 1950. She was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, an independent school in London. She then attended St Hilda's College, University of Oxford, where she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. She served as the President of the Oxford Union in 1971. She then earned her MBA at the University of Illinois in the United States.

Kramer began her career in finance, and rose to become a Vice-President of Citibank in Chicago. She and her husband then set up Infrastructure Capital Partners, a firm which advised on infrastructure projects, primarily in Central and Eastern Europe.

She contested Dulwich and West Norwood in 1997, coming third behind the Labour incumbent Tessa Jowell and the Conservative candidate Roger W. Gough.


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