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Sharon Margaret Bowles, Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (born 12 June 1953, Oxford) is a Liberal Democrat politician. She was a Member of the European Parliament 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,〔http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/14/eu-survey-most-influential-britons〕 and also as one of the top ten most influential regulators in the European Union, and most influential woman.〔http://www.efinancialnews.com/fn100/2012〕 She was short-listed to be Governor of the Bank of England in 2012.〔http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/9674833/Sharon-Bowles-makes-it-onto-shortlist-for-Bank-of-England-Governor.html〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dissolution-peerages-2015 )〕 ==Political career== Before joining the European Parliament Bowles worked as a European patent attorney. She was a member of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA).〔(Parliamentary Committee ) - ''CIPA''〕 She was the European Parliament's only registered patent attorney. In the 1992 and 1997 general election she was the Liberal Democrat candidate for the Aylesbury constituency. She has been a member of the bureau of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party since 2004. She replaced Chris Huhne in the European Parliament after he was elected to the House of Commons in the 2005 general election. On 10 November 2007 she was selected as the first placed prospective candidate on the Liberal Democrat list for the 2009 election in the South-East England European constituency,〔(- Liberal Democrats select European Parliament Candidates for England ) - ''Liberal Democrat Website''〕 and was re-elected to the European Parliament on 4 June 2009.〔() "2009 South East England European election result"〕 She served alongside Catherine Bearder as MEP for South East England. 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「Sharon Bowles」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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