Alison Mary Suttie, Baroness Suttie (born 27 August 1968)''Baroness Suttie''
. Profile at Democracy Live. Retrieved 10 February 2014''Hawick-born Lib Dem activist set to join House of Lords''
in: ''The Southern Reporter'' 8 August 2013. Retrieved 10 February 2014 is a British Liberal Democrat

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. She was appointed a

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in the

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in September 2013. A party whip, she is a member of the Liberal Democrat

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team. She is also a trustee on the board of IPPR. She is a campaigner for public awareness of

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in the UK and internationally and also a campaigner on

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issues.

Education

Suttie went to Hawick High School (1980-1986), and graduated with a degree in French and

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from

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, Edinburgh in 1990. In 1988, she studied at the Voronezh State University in Russia for some time. After graduation from Heriot-Watt she worked in St Petersburg, Russia as an English teacher from 1990 to 1991.

Liberal Democrat career

From 2002 to 2004, she was the

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and

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to the Irish politician and

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, Pat Cox MEP ( ELDR Group), and worked in the Central-

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countries in the run up to the

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. From 2006 to 2010, Suttie was Head of the Liberal Democrat Leader's Office where she worked in the

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for

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and

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. As the Liberal Democrat

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, she planned and executed the party's 2010 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 the

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and Labour parties which eventually led to the formation of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat

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. She was Deputy Chief of Staff and Special Adviser (Political Relations) to Nick Clegg, in the Office of the

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from May 2010 to October 2011. Suttie was initially special adviser to then-Scotland secretary

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, but moved to serve Nick Clegg when then Chief Secretary to the Treasury David Laws resigned over his parliamentary expenses claims. Suttie was created a

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on 17 September 2013 taking the title Baroness Suttie, of

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in the

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Consultant

Since 2012 Suttie has worked as a

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political campaign training consultant (Suttie Consulting). She has worked in

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and

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and runs training courses on campaigning and lobbying for civil servants,

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and charities.

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Education

Liberal Democrat career

Consultant

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