Dee Doocey London Assembly Member

Biography

Dee Doocey has been an elected member of the London Assembly since 2004 and was Chair of the Assembly in 2010-11. For six years, Dee chaired the Assembly’s Economic Development, Culture, Sport and Tourism Committee (the lead committee for monitoring and reporting on the 2012 Olympic Games). Dee was a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority from 2005 until January 2012 when it was abolished to make way for the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime. Dee chaired the MPA’s Finance and Resources Committee and the Olympic and Paralympic sub-committee and is currently representing the Mayor on the Home Office Olympic Security Board.

In November 2010, Dee was awarded a life peerage as Baroness Doocey, and sits on the Liberal Democrat benches in the House of Lords.

From 1986 until 1994, Dee was an elected councillor for the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, where she was Chair of the Housing Committee. Dee was previously Finance Director of the Liberal Democrat party, a management consultant, and Group Managing Director of an international fashion company with operations in London, Hong Kong and China. However she gave up her business interests when she was elected to the London Assembly in 2004 in order to concentrate full time on her London Assembly duties.

Biographical information as supplied by individual Assembly Members.

Contact details:
GLA
City Hall
The Queen's Walk
London SE1 2AA

Telephone: 020 7983 4797
Email: Dee.Doocey@london.gov.uk