Wendy Alexander

Quick Facts

Full Name	Wendy Alexander
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jun 27, 1963(1963-06-27)
Age	61
Birthplace	Glasgow
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Scotland
Horoscope	Gemini

Wendy Alexander Biography

Wendy Alexander is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on June 27, 1963 in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. Alexander was born June 27, 1963, in Glasgow in the home of the Reverend Douglas N. Alexander and Dr. Joyce O. Alexander and Reverend Douglas N. Alexander. Alexander was a student at Park Mains High School in Erskine and was awarded an award to Lester B. Pearson College in British Columbia before studying at the University of Glasgow, where she received 1st Class MA (Hons) of Economic as well as Modern History. She then earned an advanced MA of Industrial Relations from the University of Warwick and she also earned an MBA at INSEAD. She received the honorary title of Strathclyde University in 2007.

Wendy Alexander served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) from its inception in 1999 to the year 2011.

She also authored Chasing the Tartan Tiger: Lessons from a Celtic Cousin? (2003), co-edited (with Diane Coyle and Brian Ashcroft) New Wealth for Old Nations: Scotland’s Economic Prospects (2005), edited an anthology of essays on the life of the late First Minister, Donald Dewar: Scotland’s first First Minister (2005) and wrote a non-political column for young mums in the Daily Record.

In 2007, a controversy developed after it emerged that Alexander’s campaign team had accepted a £950 impermissible donation from Paul Green, a property magnate, a matter that was investigated by the Electoral Commission and Strathclyde Police. When it emerged that the donation of £950 had come from a personal account, and not a business account, the money was immediately forfeited. Further newspaper reports on 30 November indicated Alexander was aware of the identity of the donor, after having sent a personal letter of gratitude to Mr Green (at his home in Jersey) concerning the donation. As Mr Green was not registered as an elector in the United Kingdom this barred him from donating to a UK-based party. However, the Electoral Commission concluded in February 2008 that Alexander had taken ‘significant steps’ to comply with funding regulations and decided there was no basis for further action. As part of the Electoral Commission ruling, they also stated that Alexander “did not take all reasonable steps” and that “there is not sufficient evidence to establish that an offence has been committed”. These mixed messages have resulted in a number of people questioning the decision, including Alex Salmond the head of the Scottish Government who likened the result to a not proven verdict.

From 1999 until the year 2002, Wendy Alexander was a Scottish Minister in the Scottish Government. She started out as the Minister of Communities and then as Minister of Enterprise and Lifelong Learning, and then in the position of Minister for Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning.

Wendy Alexander Net Worth

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

Wendy Alexander (born 27 June 1963) is a retired Scottish politician, and was the former MSP Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Paisley North. She held a variety of Scottish Government cabinet posts and was the leader in the Scottish Labour Party from 2007-2008. In 2010 and 2011, she chaired the Scotland Bill Committee on financial powers of the Scottish Parliament.

After Labour’s victory in a landslide at the general election of 1997, Alexander was appointed Special Advisor for Donald Dewar when he became Secretary of State for Scotland. Alexander was a key participant in the creation for the White Paper on devolution, the Scotland Act 1998 and preparations for the creation of the Scottish Parliament, which was a subject she published about during the 1990s.

Alexander resigned from ministerial office on 4 May 2002. After her resignation from Jack McConnell’s Cabinet she became a visiting professor at the Strathclyde Business School and became a member, and subsequently Chair of the Scottish Parliament’s Finance Committee. She inspired and led the Allander Series of seminars which had the aim of encouraging fresh thinking on Scotland’s economic future. The seminars brought William Baumol, Ed Glaeser and Nobel laureates James Heckman and Paul Krugman from across the spectrum of political economy to Scotland to reflect on issues such as the returns to early intervention, supporting innovation and cities as future growth engines.

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In a separate development, a few days earlier in February 2008, the Scottish Parliament standards watchdog reported Alexander to the procurator fiscal for failing to declare as gifts the donations that were made to the fund for her campaign for the Scottish Labour Party leadership. Alexander had been told by the parliamentary authorities that there was no need to declare these donations as gifts. In previous leadership campaigns, campaign donations were not treated as gifts. Again the subsequent investigation led to a decision by the Crown Office to take no further action.

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As Labour leader in the Scottish Parliament, she set this in motion by working with the Conservative and Liberal Democrat leaders to set up the Commission on Scottish Devolution (aka the Calman Commission) in a “bold cross-party, cross- border initiative”. The review was established by a vote of the Scottish Parliament. The Calman Commission became a unique Scottish Parliament-UK Government joint venture which reported back to the Parliament in June 2009 proposing wide-ranging changes in the financing of the Scottish Parliament. Alexander wrote then “history teaches that constitutional reform has never been gifted to Scotland. It has to be fought and argued for… Calman will shape the next phase of Scotland’s journey…[with] a range of common sense measures to improve relationships”.