Nicky Gavron
Nicky Gavron AM | |
|---|---|
 At Inverness Street Market in Camden, March 2008 | |
| Deputy Mayor of London | |
| Assumed office 2004 | |
| Preceded by | Jenny Jones |
| Succeeded by | Still in Office |
| In office 2000–2003 | |
| Preceded by | New Office |
| Succeeded by | Jenny Jones |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | Courtauld Institute |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Lecturer |
| Website | http://www.nickygavron.com |
Felicia Nicolette Gavron, nee Coates (born c. 1945, Worcester) is a British politician, Deputy Mayor of London, a member of the London Assembly and the former Labour candidate for the 2004 Mayor of London elections.
Biography
Gavron is the daughter of a holocaust survivor who had fled Nazi Germany in 1936[1]. In March 2008 she revealed that her mother was chosen to dance before Hitler in the opening ceremony of the 1936 Olympics, until the authorities discovered that she was Jewish.[2]
She studied at Worcester Girls' Grammar School, followed by study of the history of art at the Courtauld Institute in London. She then gained a job as a lecturer at the Camberwell School of Art in South London.
She is an ex-wife of publisher Bob Gavron, now Baron Gavron. She currently resides in Highgate, North London. She has four children.
Political career
In 1986 she was elected as a Labour councillor for the London Borough of Haringey, and was leader of the London Planning Advisory Committee from 1994 until it was absorbed into the Greater London Authority. She was elected London Assembly Member for Enfield and Haringey in the 2000 London Assembly election and was Deputy Mayor of London from May 2000 until June 2003 [1], when the Mayor, Ken Livingstone, appointed Jenny Jones (Green) to succeed her.
Although she was selected as Labour's mayoral candidate for the 2004 elections, she stepped aside when Ken Livingstone was readmitted to the party. In the 2004 London Assembly election she was re-elected as a Londonwide Labour Assembly Member on the party list. Shortly after the election, Livingstone once again appointed her to the position of Deputy Mayor [2]. Gavron was supposed to take up a position as acting Mayor during Livingston's suspension for four weeks from 1 March 2006; but a High Court order froze the suspension, allowing Livingstone to remain in office.
Within the London Assembly, she is a member of the Safer London Committee and the Metropolitan Police Authority. She also serves on the Mayor's Advisory Cabinet, holding the portfolio for spatial development and strategic planning [3]. In this capacity she has been the driving force behind much of the Mayor's environment and planning policy, overseeing the third London Plan.[3]
See also
References
- ^ http://www.london.gov.uk/view_press_release.jsp?releaseid=4889
- ^ London Evening Standard, 5th March 2008)
- ^ Estates Gazette, 28th February 2008, p. 68
External links
- Official web site - holding page only
- Biography from the London Assembly
- Met Police Authority profile
- Passnotes from the Guardian