Nick Clegg
Nicholas William Peter Clegg ( born January 7, 1967 in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire ) is a British politician and Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Since 2007, he is leader of the Liberal Democrats. Its Headquarters and Deputy Prime Minister 's Chevening House in Kent.
Life
Clegg's parents are Nicholas Clegg, an English banker, and Hermance van den Wall Bake, a Dutch teacher. Clegg's grandparents are Hugh Anthony Clegg and Baroness Kira von Engelhardt. Baroness Moura Budberg Nick Clegg's great-great aunt was. He attended the Caldicott School in Buckinghamshire and Westminster School in London. He was bilingual in English and Dutch educated and speaks beside nor French, German and Spanish. After a Studienauszeit as a ski instructor in Austria and a job at a bank in Helsinki Clegg studied archeology and anthropology at Robinson College at the University of Cambridge. After finishing his studies in Cambridge Clegg received a one-year scholarship to the University of Minnesota, where he wrote about the political philosophy of deep ecology. After Clegg moved to New York City, where he worked for Christopher Hitchens on the left-wing weekly magazine The Nation. It was followed by a stay Clegg in Brussels as part of a six -month internship as part of the Group of 24, where he graduated in Bruges a second Master's degree from the College of Europe.
1993 Clegg won the David Thomas Prize of the British newspaper Financial Times. In April 1994, Clegg got a job at the European Commission, working in the TACIS aid program to the former Soviet Union countries. EU Trade Commissioner Leon Brittan then offered Clegg a staff in his office as a policy adviser and speechwriter to.
1998 Clegg has been established for the Liberal Democrats in the European elections in 1999. Surprisingly, he was chosen for the East Midlands and so member of the European Parliament, where he served until 2004. Clegg decided to run for the British general election, and in 2005 won a seat in parliament in the House for Sheffield Hallam in the constituency.
Clegg was elected on 18 December 2007 as party leader of the Liberal Democrats.
As part of the coalition between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats Clegg was appointed on 11 May 2010 as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Chairman of the Privy Council under Prime Minister David Cameron Cameron in the cabinet.
Clegg is married to the Valladolid originating in Spain lawyer Miriam González Durántez. His wife does not have the British nationality. He himself is a declared atheist, but leaves his three children in the Roman Catholic faith educate his wife.