title: Career Dinner Series with Alison Suttie
start: 2018-04-19
start time: 18:30
end time: 21:00
tags: CFFP CentreforFeministForeignPolicy feminism feminismo feminismus intersectional womenrights
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description:
The Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy and Women in Foreign Policy are hosting our April career dinner with Baroness Alison Suttie!
This dinner will be particularly suited for people who are looking for a career in politics, foreign policy, and leadership development.
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Alison has been a member of the House of Lords since October 2013 and is currently Northern Ireland Spokesperson for the Party in the House of Lords.
She has worked in both the House of Commons and the European Parliament and was Press Secretary to the President of the European Parliament, Pat Cox MEP (2002-2004), for over ten years. Alison has extensive experience of parliamentary processes in both London and Brussels. Having worked as Deputy Chief of Staff to Nick Clegg from June 2010 to October 2011, during his period as Deputy Prime Minister, she also has first-hand experience of both Whitehall and Downing Street.
Since 2011 she has been working as an adviser, mentor and trainer in the parliaments of Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, and Tunisia as well as being engaged in advocacy and youth engagement projects in North Africa, Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
She sits on the House of Lords EU Select Committee and the EU Sub-Committee on External Relations which are currently dealing with issues relating to Brexit.
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Tickets begin at £15 and include a light dinner. You will be responsible for purchasing any drinks on the evening. In order to ensure an intimate evening, we are only offering thirteen tickets to this dinner, five of which are sold at concession prices, for students or workers on low wages. All tickets must be purchased ahead of the dinner.