The Rt Hon Vince Cable, MP

Career: fin offr Kenya Treasy (ODI/Nuffield fell) 1966-68, lectr in econs Univ of Glasgow 1968-74, first sec Diplomatic Serv 1974-76, dep dir Overseas Devpt Inst 1976-83, special advsr to late Rt Hon John Smith, MP as Sec of State for Trade 1979, special advsr (dir) Cwlth Secretariat 1983-90, advsr to Brundtland Cmmn on environment and devpt 1986, head Econs Prog Chatham House 1993-95, chief economist Shell (International) 1995-97, MP (Lib Dem) Twickenham 1997-; memb Treasy Select Ctee 1999, trade and industry spokesman Lib Dems 1999-2003, Lib Dem shadow Chllr of the Exchequer 2003-, dep ldr 2006-, acting ldr 2007, sec of state for business innovation and skills 2010-; pres Bd of Parole 2010-; former chair All Pty Police Gp, chair All Pty Victims of Crime Gp; cncllr (Lab) Glasgow City Cncl 1971-74; contested: Glasgow Hillhead (Lab) 1970, York (Lib Dem) 1983 and 1987, Twickenham (Lib Dem) 1992; visiting fell: Nuffield Coll Oxford, LSE

Books and Publications: Protectionism and Industrial Decline (1983), Private Foreign Investment and Development (jtly, 1987), Trade Blocs (jtly, 1994), The World's New Fissures, The Politics of Identity (Demos, 1994), Global Superhighways (1995), China and India, The Emerging Giants (1995), Globalisation and Global Governance (1999), Multiple Identity (2005), The Storm (2009), Free Radical (2009), Tackling the Fiscal Crisis (2009)