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Susan Kramer
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Families Spokesperson, Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
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Biography
Susan Kramer entered Parliament at her second attempt in 2005, holding this seat for the Liberal Democrats.
Susan Kramer was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and Oxford University, where she was President of the Oxford Union, and took her MBA at the University of Illinois. She made her career in finance and became a Vice-President of a leading international bank; later, with her husband, she set up their own firm working on transport projects in Central and Eastern Europe, before joining colleagues to set up Future Water International developing an environmentally friendly waste water recycling project in Hungary. She is a Vice-President of 'The Eve Appeal', a national cancer charity.
In 2000 she was the Liberal Democrat candidate in the election for Mayor of London, campaigning to stop the privatisation of the Tube. She was a board member of Transport for London. As an MP her work on local issues includes: campaigns against closure of local post offices and Heathrow expansion and night flights; for community support officers and CCTV; for fair funding for local schools and hospitals; for a fair deal for pensioners; for doorstep plastics and cardboard; and lobbying Thames Water to find a solution to local sewage problems.
In 2005 she was appointed to the Treasury Team and joined the Treasury Select Committee; from March to December 2006 she served as Shadow International Development Secretary; in December 2006 she was appointed Shadow Trade and Industry Secretary. Since being elected she has also been appointed as the Lib Dem Ambassador to The City of London, and Chair of the Environmental Taxation Taskforce. In 2007 Susan was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Transport. Susan now serves as Families spokesperson, Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor for the Duchy of Lancaster under Nick Clegg.
Publications: Susan contributed a chapter to the Orange Book (2004) on using market mechanisms to achieve environmental goals. Her recent articles are available on her website
Parliamentary experience:
Dec 2007- Families spokesperson, Shadow Cabinet Office Minister, Duchy of Lancaster, 2007- Shadow Transport Secretary, Dec 2006-07 Shadow DTI Secretary, Mar-Dec 2006 Shadow International Development Secretary, 2005-6 Treasury, 2005- Treasury Select Committee.
Interests:
Environment, finance, transport
Memberships:
Chair Twickenham and Richmond Liberal Democrats 2001-02; Member: Women Liberal Democrats executive 1997-2000, London regional executive 1997-2003, Liberal Democrat federal executive 2001-04
General election 2005 result
Seat: Richmond Park
Current MP: Susan Kramer
| Liberal Democrats | 47% | 24011 votes | |
| Labour | 9% | 4768 votes | |
| Conservatives | 40% | 20280 votes | |
| Others | 4% | 1837 votes |