Marina Yannakoudakis

Marina Yannakoudakis MEP
Member of the European Parliament for London
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 June 2009
Preceded by	John Bowis
Personal details
Born	16 April 1956 (1956-04-16) (age 55) Paddington, London, England, UK
Nationality	British
Political party	Conservative
Spouse(s)	Zacharias Yannakoudakis
Alma mater	Brunel University
Website	http://www.marinayannakoudakis.com/

Marina Yannakoudakis (born 16 April 1956) is a Conservative Party Member of the European Parliament for London first elected at the 2009 European Parliament election.

She is a member of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and the Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee.^{[citation needed]}

She is also a member of the High-Level Contact Group for relations with the Turkish Cypriot community in the northern part of the island. She is the Conservative and the European Conservatives and Reformists spokesman on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.

Early years

Yannakoudakis was born in Paddington. She studied for a BSc in government, politics and modern history at Brunel University, where she was chairman of the Conservative students, and also received an MA in education from the Open University.

Personal life

She married her Greek-born husband, Zacharias Yannakoudakis, in 1983.She was finance director of the company that they founded and ran together until her election; the couple has three children. The family lives in Barnet, on whose council she served from 2002-10.

References

• European Parliament website
• Marina Yannakoudakis Profile

Persondata
Name	Yannakoudakis, Marina
Alternative names
Short description	British Conservative politician
Date of birth	16 April 1956
Place of birth	Paddington, London, United Kingdom
Date of death
Place of death