Vicky Ford
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Vicky Ford MEP |
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Vicky Ford, 2010
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| Member of the European Parliament for East of England |
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Assumed office 4 June 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Christopher Beazley |
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21 September 1967 Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater |
St Paul's Girls' School Marlborough College Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Website | www.vickyford.org |
Victoria Grace "Vicky" Ford (born 21 September 1967) was elected as Conservative Party Member of the European Parliament for East of England in the 2009 European Parliament election. She is currently Chair of the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) Committee. She is a member of the Bureau of the European Conservative and Reformist Group and a member of the Parliament's delegation for relations with China. Before entering politics, Ford spent 14 years in Finance, mostly at JP Morgan, specialising in infrastructure and project financing.
Ford has been the rapporteur for the Parliament on firearms laws, offshore oil and gas safety and the fiscal framework directive which seeks to increase transparency and accountability of public spending. She was a lead negotiator on the Horizon 2020 fund for research and on bank capital requirements, deposit guarantee schemes and residential mortgages. She campaigns to reduce bureaucracy for business, to reduce the EU budget and to end the Strasbourg two-seat circus.
Ford was born and grew up in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Her parents were both English doctors. As a child she joined her mother campaigning with the peace movement and her father stood in local elections in an area now dominated by Sinn Féin. She attended primary school in Northern Ireland, but following her father's death she went to secondary school in England.
Ford was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, Marlborough College and studied Maths and Economics at Trinity College, Cambridge, where she met her husband Hugo Ford.
Before politics, Ford had a 14-year career in banking. Between 1988 and 2000, Ford worked at JP Morgan, starting as a graduate trainee but working up to a vice president. She has been involved in raising money for infrastructure, including roads, railways, telecommunications and electricity networks across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. She worked with many of Europe's largest companies as well as advising national governments and central banks. In 2000 Ford moved to Bear Stearns International, where she worked as a managing director.
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