Susan Kramer MP (Women Liberal Democrats)

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Susan Kramer MP

Susan Kramer

Susan Kramer is a long-standing WLD supporter and is cuurently the LibDem's Family spokesperson.

She 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.