40 Facts About Emma Nicholson

Emma Harriet Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne was born on 16 October 1941 and is a British politician, who has been a life peer since 1997.

Emma Nicholson was elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Torridge and West Devon in 1987, before switching to the Liberal Democrats in 1995.

Emma Nicholson was the Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament for South East England from 1999 to 2009.

In 2017, Baroness Nicholson was appointed as Prime Minister's Trade Envoy for Kazakhstan.

Emma Nicholson's uncle was Lord Chancellor in the 1960s, and his daughter, her cousin Eliza Manningham-Buller, became Director General of MI5.

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Emma Nicholson was educated at St Mary's School, Wantage and the Royal Academy of Music.

Emma Nicholson contested the constituency of Blyth in 1979, but was defeated.

Emma Nicholson was elected a Conservative Member of Parliament for Torridge and West Devon in 1987, having acting as vice-chairman of the Conservative Party between 1983 and 1987.

Emma Nicholson fought for the release of Katiza Cebekhulu, the "missing witness" in the case of the death of Stompie Seipei.

Cebekhulu later claimed that Emma Nicholson had demanded £50,000 from him to obtain copyright over a book she had Fred Bridgland write about him; Emma Nicholson denied this, saying her motives were "exclusively humanitarian and honourable".

Emma Nicholson was succeeded by John Burnett, Baron Burnett in 1997, when Tony Blair won his landslide.

That year, Emma Nicholson was made a life peer as Baroness Emma Nicholson of Winterbourne, of Winterbourne, in the Royal County of Berkshire.

Lady Emma Nicholson became a member of the European Parliament in 1999, joining the Committee on Foreign Affairs and serving as the committee's Vice President from 2004 to 2007.

Emma Nicholson was President of the Delegation for Relations with Iraq and President of the Committee on Women's Rights of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly.

Emma Nicholson was Rapporteur for Kashmir, and in 2007 her controversial report on Kashmir was passed by a majority of 522 to 9.

Emma Nicholson described the draining of the Mesopotamian Marshes as a "genocide".

In 2006, Lady Emma Nicholson was Chief Observer of the European Union Election Observation Mission to Yemen.

Emma Nicholson was a member of European Union Election Observation Missions to Palestine, Azerbaijan, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Armenia and Pakistan.

Emma Nicholson generated controversy through her strong opposition to international adoptions, which she believed had become a market and subject to corruption.

Lady Emma Nicholson stood down from the European Parliament at the 2009 elections.

In 2009, Lady Emma Nicholson returned to London and resumed her political work at the House of Lords.

Emma Nicholson is a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Human Trafficking, chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Foreign Affairs and speaks regularly on health care and education in the Middle East and Eastern Europe and business development in Iraq and its wider neighbourhood.

Emma Nicholson was appointed as Prime Minister's Trade Envoy for Iraq on 30 January 2014.

Emma Nicholson resigned the Liberal Democrat whip in July 2016, to sit as a non-affiliated member.

Emma Nicholson left the Liberal Democrats to rejoin the Conservatives in 2016, quoting the position of Theresa May on grammar schools as the reason for the defection.

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Baroness Emma Nicholson visited Kazakhstan as Prime Minister's Trade Envoy on 28 April 2019.

Emma Nicholson is Executive Chairman of the Iraq Britain Business Council an organisation which facilitates business, trade investment, human resources, training and transfer of technology and know-how into the Republic of Iraq.

Lady Emma Nicholson is Executive Chairman of the Associatia Children's High Level Group.

Emma Nicholson co-founded its English counterpart, the Children's High Level Group with novelist and philanthropist JK Rowling.

Lady Emma Nicholson is the co-chairman with the Prime Minister of Romania of the High Level Group for Romania's Children and the co-chairman with the Prime Minister of Moldova of the High Level Group for Moldovan Children.

Lady Emma Nicholson is a member of the American Bar Association's Middle East North Africa Council, the Arab Gulf Programme for United Nations Development Organisations Prize Committee and Freedom House International Solidarity Committee.

Emma Nicholson is a board member of the Foundation for Dialogue Among Civilisations, the American Islamic Congress, and a member of the Board of Advisors for the New York University Center for Dialogues, Islamic World.

Emma Nicholson is Vice President of The Little Foundation, and is Honorary Advisor to the Prime Minister and Government of Iraq on Public Health and related issues.

Emma Nicholson was a Trustee of the Booker Prize until 2009, after which she was made an honorary Vice President.

In June 2020, Emma Nicholson referred to model Munroe Bergdorf on Twitter as 'a weird creature' and shared posts Bergdorf considered transphobic, resulting in an official complaint to the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner.

On 9 May 1987, Emma Nicholson married Sir Michael Harris Caine, with whom she had a foster son Amar Kanim, who was rescued from Iraq after surviving a napalm attack in March 1991.

Emma Nicholson is President of the Council of the Caine Prize for African Writing, which was named after her late husband.

Emma Nicholson was widowed in 1999 and alleged negligence by hospital staff treating her husband at King Edward VII's Hospital.

In September 1999 The Guardian reported that Baroness Emma Nicholson was due to pursue legal action against the hospital alleging negligence.

In 2017, Lady Emma Nicholson received an honorary doctorate in International Leadership and Humanitarian Service from Brigham Young University in the United States for her charity and humanitarian work across the Middle East.