Rachel Collinson

Rachel Collinson is the Green Party of England and Wales Spokesperson for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, known for her political and campaigning work. Collinson entered politics in 2014, a decision which the Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW) website describes as resulting from "watch[ing] the coalition government savage her industry and destroy the profitability of hundreds of thousands of small firms like hers."^[1] She stood as the parliamentary candidate for West Ham in 2015.

Education

Collinson graduated from the University of Wolverhampton School of Art and Design with a degree in Graphic Communication in 1998, and gained a master's degree in Hypermedia Studies from the University of Westminster in 1999.

Background

Collinson previously lived in Yorkshire, Wolverhampton, the West of London and the North-East of Scotland. She has been a resident of Newham, London since 2013.^[2]

Career

Collinson is listed as a partner in the Transformational Index, whose publicly stated mission is that it exists to help organisations measure the environmental and social impact of business. She also worked for the University of Westminster as a lecturer at the Hypermedia Research Centre, and software company Engaging Networks as their Director of Knowledge Sharing and Innovation. She is a council member of Unlock Democracy and a regular trainer on Campaign Bootcamp.^[3]

Since entering politics she has campaigned on several issues, most notably the use of LOBO loans by councils. She was the first resident in the UK to request that a council auditor (in this case PwC) take a council to court for ultra vires spending on LOBOs.^[4][5]

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