Susan Garden, Baroness Garden of Frognal

Susan Elizabeth Garden, Baroness Garden of Frognal ( born February 22, 1944 in London ) is a British Liberal politician.

Susan studied at St Hilda's Garden College at Oxford University foreign languages ​​and was married to Timothy Garden a college friend, who died on 9 August 2007 and with whom she had two children. Through the activities of her husband as an officer in the RAF, she worked 1965 - 1985 in many places, among others in Germany as a teacher. Garden Susan lives in London where she from 1988 - was full-time and worked until 2008 or advise in the field of vocational training in 2000 for the City and Guild London Institute.

Susan Garden was the candidate of the Liberal Democrats in the local elections in 2005 in Camden, and for the House of Commons in the constituency of Finchley and Golders Green ( London) 2005.

After the death of her husband she was in September 2007 Life Peer as Baroness Garden of Frognal, Hampstead, charged of the London Borough of Camden.

In 2008, she was the spokeswoman for the House of Lords for "Children, Schools and Families " and 2009 for " universities and vocational qualifications ." Since 2010, Susan Garden is a Government Whip in the House of Commons and the Speaker of the Department of Culture Media and Sport for the subregions Olympic Games, Sport, National Lottery and tourism, as well as the spokeswoman for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills for the subarea Higher Education ( German Higher Education) and the spokesperson for the Department of Education (equivalent to the Ministry of Education). She is the current vice - chairman of the Oxford University Society and the Institute of Export.