Sharon Bowles

The Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted
Official portrait, 2024
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
23 October 2015
Life Peerage
Member of the European Parliament
for South East England
In office
12 May 2005 – 2 July 2014
Preceded byChris Huhne
Succeeded byJanice Atkinson
Personal details
Born (1953-06-12) 12 June 1953 (age 71)
Oxford, England
Political partyLiberal Democrat
Alma materReading University
Websitesharonbowles.org.uk

Sharon Margaret Bowles, Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (born 12 June 1953) is a Liberal Democrat politician. She was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the South East England region of the United Kingdom from 2005 to 2014. She sat in the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe grouping. She was educated at the independent Our Lady's Abingdon, the University of Reading and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.

Bowles has been described as the most influential Briton in the development of European Union policy,[1] and also as one of the top ten most influential regulators in the European Union, and most influential woman.[2] She was short listed to be Governor of the Bank of England in 2012.[3]

On 15 August 2014 she became a non executive director of The London Stock Exchange Group plc and of its subsidiary The London Stock Exchange plc.

She 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.[4][5]

  1. ^ Traynor, Ian (14 November 2012). "David who? Bowles beats Cameron in poll of EU's most influential Britons". The Guardian.
  2. ^ "FN100 Most Influential 2012". Financial News. Archived from the original on 18 October 2012.
  3. ^ "Sharon Bowles makes it onto shortlist for Bank of England Governor". The Telegraph. 14 November 2012.
  4. ^ "Dissolution Peerages 2015". Gov.uk. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  5. ^ "No. 61394". The London Gazette. 29 October 2015. p. 21238.

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