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Eilidh Whiteford (born 24 April 1969) is the Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Banff and Buchan. She sits on the Scottish Affairs Select Committee and is the SNP's Westminster Spokesperson for Social Justice, Work and Pensions. In the 2010-15 Parliament she was the SNP's spokesperson for Fishing, Food and Rural Affairs, and International Development. ==Biography== Whiteford was born in 1969 in Aberdeen and grew up in Macduff, Banffshire, where her parents still live. She went to Banff Academy. She has been active in the SNP since joining her local branch in 1986 during the run up to Alex Salmond's victorious 1987 election. She later served in the Peterhead office working for Alex Salmond in 1992. At Glasgow University she quickly got involved with the Federation of Student Nationalists, first as National Organiser and then as President, sitting on the SNP National Executive and acting as party spokesperson on Higher Education. In between the politics, she graduated with First Class Honours in English and Scottish Literature, followed by postgraduate studies in Canada and Scotland that led to a PhD in 1998. She returned to the North East in early 1998 to work for Allan Macartney MEP. Following Macartney's passing in 1998, she worked for Ian Hudghton MEP until the 1999 elections, and later helped new MSP Irene McGugan establish a constituency office in the first term of the Scottish Parliament. She returned to Glasgow University in 1999 to teach, lecturing in Scottish Literature and developing access routes into higher education for mature students (in Glasgow University's adult and continuing education department). In 2001, she moved into a campaigning role in the voluntary sector as Co-ordinator of the Scottish Carers' Alliance, a network of carer, disability and children's organisations working for the rights of and to support people looking after elderly, sick or disabled relatives or friends at home.〔(Scottish Carers' Alliance web site )〕 In 2003 she moved to Oxfam where she worked as a policy adviser and campaigns manager for over six years in a role that took her to many parts of the world. Closer to home, Whiteford was very actively involved in the Make Poverty History campaign in 2005 and helped establish the Scottish Fair Trade Forum.〔(Scottish Fair Trade Forum web site )〕 She also promoted development issues with members of the Scottish Parliament, and immediately after the Make Poverty History campaign, became Oxfam's Scottish Campaigns Manager. Whiteford maintains her interests in social policy and global issues as a volunteer for several charities, and previously sat on the Boards of Turning Point Scotland,〔(Turning Point Scotland web site )〕 and Jubilee Scotland.〔(Jubilee Scotland web site )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eilidh Whiteford」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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