Marina Yannakoudakis
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Marina Yannakoudakis is a Conservative Party
Conservative Party (UK)
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 Member of the European Parliament
Member of the European Parliament
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 for London
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 first elected at the 2009 European Parliament election
European Parliament election, 2009 (United Kingdom)
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.

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

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
European Conservatives and Reformists
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 spokesman on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.

Early years

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

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
Barnet
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, on whose council she served from 2002-10.
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