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Drinks at House of Lords

Guest Speakers: Baroness Quin and The French Senator Olivier Cadic


 Monday 20 February 2017

Meeting: 7.00p.m.
Short talks in English and in French from both speakers . Cocktail afterwards until 9.30p.m.

Committee Room G, House of Lords, London SW1A 0PW

(Nearest tube: Westminster)

Tickets: £42.00   FBS Members ; £44.00 with Paypal 
               £47.00   non - FBS Members ; £49.00 with paypal 
(Please allow 30 minutes to clear Security; Photographic ID required)

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Baroness Quin est membre de la Chambre des Lords depuis 2006.  Elle est ancien Ministre de l’Europe.  Ancien député au Parlement Européen de 1979 à 1989 et ancien député à la Chambre des Communes de 1987 à 2005.
Baroness Quin décrira le rôle actuel de la Chambre des Lords et abordera la question de l’évolution éventuelle de ce rôle et de la composition de la Chambre à l’avenir. 
Joyce Gwendolen Quin, Baroness Quin, is a Labour party politician in the United Kingdom.
Joyce Quin was educated at Whitley Bay Grammar School, and Newcastle University where she gained first class honours in French. She subsequently gained an M.Sc. in International Relations at the London School of Economics. She worked as a French language lecturer and tutor at the University of Bath and Durham University.
She served as Member of the European Parliament for Tyne South and Wear and Tyne and Wear successively from 1979 to 1989, and entered the House of Commons in the 1987 election as Member of Parliament for Gateshead East, she stayed until 2005.
Baroness Quin served as prisons minister, Minister for Europe, and as a junior agriculture minister. She asked to retire as a minister in 2001 to concentrate on her constituency interests.
In April 2006, it was announced that Quin had been nominated for a life peerage by the Labour Party. On 30 May, she was created Baroness Quin of Gateshead in the County of Tyne and Wear.
In November 2007, she was appointed Chair of the Franco-British Council (British Section). In 2010 she was awarded "Officier de la Legion d'Honneur" by the French Government. She was appointed a shadow Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs minister in May 2010 until July 2011.
She is Vice-Chairman of the Franco-British Society.
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Baroness Quin will describe the current role of the House of Lords and its composition and potential evolution in the years to come.

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Olivier CADIC is The Senator who represents the French living outside of France. He was elected in September 2014. He will explain the role of the Sénat.

Olivier Cadic is also
Membre de la commission des affaires sociales,
Vice-président de la Délégation Sénatoriale aux Entreprises,
Vice-Président du Groupe d’Etudes Tourisme et Loisirs,
Co-Président de la Fédération UDI-Monde,
Secrétaire National UDI au Commerce Extérieur,
Délégué Général de l’Alliance Centriste,
Président délégué du groupe interparlementaire d'amitié France-Luxembourg,
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Fin 2005, Olivier se lance dans l'édition en créant Cinebook, société anglaise destinée à promouvoir les plus célèbres bandes dessinées franco-belges en version anglaise. En 5 ans, il devient le premier acheteur de droits étrangers de bande dessinée. En seulement 3 ans, il a publié deux fois plus de Lucky Luke en anglais que ce qui avait été fait en 50 ans. Près de 40 séries sont publiées (Lucky Luke, XIII, Thorgal, Largo Winch, Blake & Mortimer, Spirou ou encore Yakari et Boule et Bill pour les plus jeunes.  Il vit dans le Kent avec sa famille.

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