The Baroness Suttie | |
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| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 17 September 2013 Life Peerage | |
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| Born | Alison Suttie (1968-08-27)27 August 1968 (age 56) Hawick,RoxburghshireScotland |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Liberal Democrats |
Alison Mary Suttie, Baroness Suttie (born 27 August 1968)[1][2] is a BritishLiberal Democratpolitician. She was appointed alife peer in theHouse of Lords in September 2013. Aparty whip, she is a member of the Liberal Democratforeign affairs team. She is also a trustee on the board of IPPR.
She is a campaigner for public awareness oftuberculosis in the UK and internationally and also a campaigner onhomelessness issues.
Suttie went toHawick High School (1980-1986), and graduated with a degree inFrench andRussian fromHeriot-Watt University, Edinburgh in 1990.
In 1988, she studied at theVoronezh State University in Russia for some time. After graduation from Heriot-Watt she worked inSt Petersburg, Russia as an English teacher from 1990 to 1991.
From 2002 to 2004, she was thePress Secretary andPolicy Advisor to the Irish politician andPresident of the European Parliament,Pat Cox MEP (ELDR Group), and worked in theCentral-Eastern European countries in the run up to the2004 enlargement of the European Union.
From 2006 to 2010, Suttie was Head of theLiberal Democrat Leader's Office where she worked in theHouse of Commons forMenzies Campbell,Vince Cable andNick Clegg.
As the Liberal DemocratCampaign Manager, she planned and executed the party's2010 General Election Campaign.
After the 2010 election produced a hung parliament, she was the Liberal Democrat negotiating team's coordinator in the coalition negotiations with both theConservative andLabour parties which eventually led to theformation of theConservative-Liberal DemocratCoalition Government.
She was Deputy Chief of Staff andSpecial Adviser (Political Relations) to Nick Clegg, in the Office of theDeputy Prime Minister from May 2010 to October 2011. Suttie was initially special adviser to then-Scotland secretaryDanny Alexander, but moved to serve Nick Clegg when then Chief Secretary to the TreasuryDavid Laws resigned over his parliamentary expenses claims.
Suttie was created aLife Peer on 17 September 2013 taking the titleBaroness Suttie, ofHawick in theScottish Borders.[3]
Since 2012 Suttie has worked as aself-employed political campaign training consultant (Suttie Consulting). She has worked inTunisia andMoldova and runs training courses on campaigning and lobbying for civil servants,NGOs and charities.
