1. Sharon Margaret Bowles, Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted was born on 12 June 1953 and is a Liberal Democrat politician.
16 Facts About Sharon Bowles
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Sharon Bowles was a Member of the European Parliament for the South East England region of the United Kingdom from 2005 to 2014.
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Sharon Bowles sat in the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe grouping.
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Sharon Bowles was educated at the independent Our Lady's Abingdon, the University of Reading and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
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Sharon Bowles was short listed to be Governor of the Bank of England in 2012.
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Sharon Bowles was nominated for a life peerage in the 2015 Dissolution Honours and was created Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted, of Bourne End in the County of Hertfordshire, on 23 October 2015.
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Sharon Bowles was a member of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys.
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Sharon Bowles was the European Parliament's only registered patent attorney.
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Sharon Bowles was a member of the bureau of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party from 2004.
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Sharon Bowles eventually departed the ALDE on leaving the European Parliament.
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Sharon Bowles replaced Chris Huhne in the European Parliament after he was elected to the House of Commons in the 2005 general election.
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Sharon Bowles served alongside Catherine Bearder as MEP for South East England.
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Sharon Bowles was a member of the European Parliament's delegation for relations with the countries of South East Asia and ASEAN.
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Sharon Bowles was re-elected in the 2009 European Parliament election, and took up her seat on 14 July.
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Shortly thereafter Sharon Bowles was elected chairwoman of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, succeeding Pervenche Beres.
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Sharon Bowles was re-elected chairwoman of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee in January 2012 and served in this role until the end of the parliamentary term in 2014.