Diana Wallis MEP, President of ITI
In January 2007 Diana was elected to the post of Vice President of the European Parliament. In doing so she became the first Liberal Democrat and the first British female of any political persuasion to be elected to this post. Diana Wallis was re-elected to the European Parliament in June 2004. She is one of six Members of the European Parliament from the region of Yorkshire & the Humber but the only Liberal Democrat. She was first elected to the European Parliament in 1999. Diana qualified as a solicitor in 1983, specialising in European commercial litigation. Her law studies took her to Belgium, Germany and Switzerland, which added to her interest in European issues and only heightened here desire to enter European politics. She is fluent in French and German. For a fuller version of this biography, see www.dianawallismep.org.uk/pages/aboutdiana.html.