Kishwer Falkner

Baroness Falkner chairs the EU Financial Affairs Sub-Committee in the House of Lords, and is a Member of the EU Select Committee.  She has been EU spokesman for the Lib Dems in the Lords from 2010-2014, and is also a Foreign Affairs Spokesman for the Party. She is Chancellor of the University of Northampton, a member of the Anglo-German Conference, Koenigswinter, and a member of several advisory boards. She served on the Lords Constitution Committee from 2010-15.

Kishwer has degrees in International Relations from LSE, and the University of Kent.  She has held fellowships at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford.  She grew up in South Asia and has lived and worked in the Middle East and North America.

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