Diana Wallis

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Diana Wallis MEP
Incumbent
Assumed office 
10 June 1999
Born 28 June 1954 (1954-06-28) (age 53)
Nationality British
Political party Liberal Democrat
Spouse Stewart Arnold

Diana Paulette Wallis (born 28 June 1954 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire) is a Member of the European Parliament for the Liberal Democrats for Yorkshire and the Humber. She was elected in 1999 and re-elected in 2004.

She was elected leader of the Liberal Democrats in the European Parliament 2000-2004 and then following the resignation of Chris Davies MEP she was re-elected leader in 2006[1] a post she held till January 2007. She then became the first British female of any political persuasion to be elected to the post of Vice President of the European Parliament, as well as being the first British Liberal Democrat to do so.

She is a former chairwoman of the delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway and the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee and remains a full member of that Committee.

Before being elected to the European Parliament Wallis was a solicitor in London and Hull and a councillor on Humberside County Council and East Riding Unitary Council.

Internet issues are also at the forefront of Wallis' work. She headed a discussion forum called E-PING! where internet-related topics such as the digital divide, cybercrime and data privacy were openly discussed in an on-line chat system.

Wallis employs her husband Stewart Arnold as a Parliamentary Assistant.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ New Euro Lib Dem leader elected. BBC News (2006-06-01). Retrieved on 2008-05-14.
  2. ^ Wallis, Diana. Declaration of members' interests, 2007. Retrieved on 2008-05-14.

[edit] Publications

  • Wallis, Diana; Stewart Arnold and Ben Idris Jones A (2002). Forgotten Enlargement: Future EU Relations with Iceland, Norway and Switzerland. London: Centre for Reform. ISBN 1902622391. 

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