| Marina Yannakoudakis MEP | |
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| Member of the European Parliament for London |
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| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 4 June 2009 |
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| Preceded by | John Bowis |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 16 April 1956 Paddington, London, England, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Zacharias Yannakoudakis |
| Alma mater | Brunel University |
| Website | http://www.marinayannakoudakis.com/ |
Marina Yannakoudakis (born 16 April 1956) is a Conservative Party Member of the European Parliament for London first elected at the 2009 European Parliament election.
She is a member of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and the Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee.
She is also a member of the High-Level Contact Group for relations with the Turkish Cypriot community in the northern part of the island. She is the Conservative and the European Conservatives and Reformists spokesman on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.
Yannakoudakis was born in Paddington. She studied for a BSc in government, politics and modern history at Brunel University, where she was chairman of the Conservative students, and also received an MA in education from the Open University.
She married her Greek-born husband, Zacharias Yannakoudakis, in 1983.She was finance director of the company that they founded and ran together until her election; the couple has three children. The family lives in Barnet, on whose council she served from 2002-10.