Rt Hon. Dr Vince Cable MP
Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills

Rt Hon. Dr Vince Cable MP, worked as Treasury Finance Officer for the Kenya Government between 1966 and 1968.  He then became Deputy Director of the Overseas Development Institute, which included a period working for the then Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, John Smith MP, as a Special Advisor. From 1990 Vince worked for Shell International and in 1995 became Shell's Chief Economist.

Vince Cable served as a Labour Councillor in Glasgow between 1971 and 1974, before joining the Social Democrat Party. In 1997 Vince Cable was first elected to Parliament to represent Twickenham.

He joined the Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet in October 1999 as Spokesman on Trade and Industry after a spell as a junior Treasury spokesman. Vince founded and, until recently, chaired the All Party Parliamentary Group on Victims of Crime.

He was the Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor from November 2003 until May 2010 and was Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats until May 2010.

Vince is now Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.

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