Mark Field

Mark Field ( born October 6, 1964 in Hannover) is a British politician and member of the Conservative Party in the House of Commons.

Life

Childhood and youth

Markfield was born the son of a British soldier and a German -born mother in the military hospital in Hanover. His law studies in the College St Edmund Hall, Oxford, he graduated in 1987 successfully, then he sat down at the College of Law in Chester train to the lawyer.

Career advancement and first political experiences

In 1984, he became the personal assistant of Mr John Patten, before he joined the law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in 1990. 1994-2001 he worked as the head of his own employment agency named Kelly Field Consulting.

1989-1991 was Markfield vice chairman of the local Conservative constituency of Islington North in London before 1994 City Council in the Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has been a year. A candidate in the district of Enfield in 1997 failed due to the landslide election victories of the rival Labour Party.

Member of parliament

2001 Markfield was elected as representatives of the district Cities of London and Westminster in the House of Representatives. In his inaugural speech on 27 June 2001, he called the former Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law, its strong political role model.

Field was in 2003 Whip of the Opposition and the Shadow Minister for London, which is responsible to inform the members of the opposition on the developments in the London Assembly. After he served as financial secretary of the opposition in 2005, he became in 2006 the Conservative spokesman for Culture, Media and Sport. In this position, he dealt among other things with the Law on the National Lottery in 2006.

In September 2010 he was appointed to the prestigious Intelligence & Security Committee, its youngest member he is.

The special interests of Markfield include business, finance, foreign trade and international developments. He is also chairman of the bipartisan parliamentary group on Azerbaijan and vice-chairman of the working groups "football" and " Bangladesh".

For the Daily Telegraph, he wrote some articles about on the reform of financial supervision, the position of the New Labour Party or the English football. Even with its regular contributions in the influential policy blog ConservativeHome he makes a talking point.

Field is patron of the Bishopsgate Institute and the St. Andrew 's Club.