Joan Ruddock

Joan Mary Ruddock, DBE ( born December 28, 1943 in Pontypool ) is a Welsh politician of the Labour Party and former chairman of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

Biography

After his school education in Wales, she studied at Imperial College London. She then worked from 1968 to 1973, first employee of the national campaign against homelessness "Shelter" before it to 1977 was then director of an auxiliary center for home seekers in Oxford. After that, she was a consultant from 1977 to 1981 for unemployed young people in the Manpower Services Commission (MSC ), an agency of the Department of Labor to coordinate the training and employment of labor.

In 1981, she was then chairman of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( CND) and held that office until 1985. 1987 she was elected as a candidate of the Labour Party's Members of the House of Commons. Immediately after it had already belonged to the opposition leaders ( " frontbencher " ) of their party. In the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair from 1997 to 1998, she was briefly Junior Minister in the Ministry of Women.

Under Prime Minister Gordon Brown in June 2007, she returned back to the government and was appointed by the latter to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ( Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ). As such, she was responsible for biodiversity, climate change, waste management and forestry. In October 2008, she became Parliamentary Under Secretary of State with the same competence in the newly created Department of Energy and Climate Change ( Department of Energy and Climate Change). In June 2009, she was finally in the context of a new cabinet reshuffle, Minister of State of this ministry and as such is responsible for the energy policy.

Publications

  • "The CND Story," 1983
  • " CND Scrapbook ", 1987
  • "Voices for One World ", 1988

Swell

  • " Chambers Biographical Dictionary ", p 1316, 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2
  • Politicians ( 20th century)
  • Politicians ( 21st century)
  • Labour Member
  • Member of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)
  • Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
  • Welshman
  • Born in 1943
  • Woman
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