ChrisHuhnE.org.uk
Title
Chris Huhne MP
Description
Chris is unusual among modern politicians, because he had lots of experience outside politics before being elected. Chris was an economic and financial journalist for nineteen years, and a City economist for five years, before being elected as a member of the European Parliament in 1999. Chris resigned from the European Parliament when he was elected as Eastleigh's
in 2005. He is married to Vicky (who is also an economist) and they have five children, three of them now grown up.
After Oxford University, Chris won his trade union card as a journalist by reporting under cover from India during Mrs Gandhi's emergency, when other western journalists had been expelled. His travels around India gave him an abiding interest in third world development. In 1977, Chris became Britain's youngest staff foreign correspondent when posted to Brussels by The Economist. Chris wrote an award-winning economics column every week for ten years first for the Guardian and then for the Independent on Sunday, and then edited the business sections of both the Independent and Independent on Sunday and won the prestigious Wincott award as financial journalist of the year. In 1994, Chris founded what became one of the largest teams of economists in the City to rate the risks of overseas investments for pension funds and other investors.
Languages
English
