Diana Wallis

Quick Facts

Full Name	Diana Wallis
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jun 28, 1954(1954-06-28)
Age	70
Birthplace	Hitchin
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Gemini

Diana Wallis Biography

Diana Wallis is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on June 28, 1954 in Hitchin, England, United Kingdom. Diana Paulette Wallis, FCIL (born 28 June 1954 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire) is a British former Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber. Wallis got elected first in 1999, and was returned in 2004 and 2009. She resigned at the beginning of January in 2012 when she continued to pursue a wide range of legal, academic and mediation-related pursuits.

Wallis is particularly interested in direct democracy issues and in 2001, she co-founded an organization called the Initiatives and Referendums Institute – Europe (IRI-Europe) which’s mission is to help modern direct democracy around the world. In March of 2006 she organized an event organized by IRI-Europe in Brussels to discuss the different strategies across Europe in relation to direct democracy and , in particular, the push to establish the citizens’ initiative on a European level. She is a board member for the Initiative & Referendum Institute Europe. It is a thinktank that has a special interest in all matters pertaining to direct democratic processes.

Throughout her time as an MEP, Wallis has authored 28 full reports excluding purely technical ones, and 16 opinions, asked 40 written and oral questions of the Commission and Council (during Parliament’s 2004–2009 term). She successfully piloted two written declarations until their adoption by the Parliament – one in 2007 on the European Emergency Number 1-1-2 (which achieved 530 MEP signatures, which is the record so far), and one in 2008 on Emergency cooperation in recovering missing children.

Until 2007, she was Chair of the delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway and the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee and remained a full member of that Committee during the remainder of her parliamentary career.

As a member of the ALDE Political group on a European scale within the European Parliament, Wallis was the leader in ALDE, the Liberal Democrats in the European Parliament 2000-2004 and from June 2006 until January 2007.

Diana Wallis Net Worth

Diana Wallis is one of the richest Politician from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Diana Wallis 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Wallis was a student of History in the History department at North London Polytechnic, graduating with BA. She continued her studies in the University of Kent, where she earned the title in master of Arts (MA), Liege, Zurich and Chester. Prior to being elected into the European Parliament she practised for over 15 years as litigator (solicitor) mostly in London where she established an European international practice. Wallis was a lecturer at the University of Hull in European business law from 1995 until 1999. Wallis is also a councillor on the Humberside County Council and deputy head for the East Riding Unitary Council from 1994 until 1999.

Wallis was elected to the European Parliament on three successive occasions in the years 1999, 2004 and 2009 (5th 6th, 7th and 5th legislating terms for the European Parliament). In her time, she held several senior post and also wrote a amount of Parliamentary reports.

From 2002 to 2009, Wallis was the President of the UK Institute of Translation & Interpreting.

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Diana Wallis has been a vocal proponent of increasing the share of women in decision-making roles. In the run-up to the appointment of the second Barroso Commission in 2009, she co-launched a campaign “send2women” with the aim of securing at least two women among the top positions in the EU institutions which were rotating that year, and the ambition to increase female representation in the EU institutions overall. In this framework she met Commission President Jose-Manuel Barroso in a bid to increase gender equality within the College of Commissioners.

Facts & Trivia

Diana Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Diana Wallis celebrates birthday on June 28 of every year.

On 30 November 2011 Wallis announced her intention to stand for the position of President of the European Parliament as an independent candidate on the basis of nomination by 40 MEPs from different political groups. Other candidates were Martin Schulz and Nirj Deva. Martin Schulz was elected on 17 January 2012, as anticipated, and pursuant to the agreement between certain political groups, with Wallis obtaining 141 votes.