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14 www.theisba.org.uk KEYNOTE ADDRESS She has been married to Jonathan, an architect and councillor for the Loughborough Outwoods Ward, since July 2000 and they have a son who was born in 2008. Nicky studied law at Oxford University then worked as a solicitor specialising in corporate law, advising private and public companies from 1994 until her election in 2010. Nicky previously served as Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities (2014-16); Financial Secretary to the Treasury (2014); Minister for Women (2014); Economic Secretary to the Treasury (2013-14); an Assistant Government Whip (2012-13); and the Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Rt Hon David Willetts MP, Cabinet Minister for Universities and Science (2010-12). Nicky was re-elected as the Member of Parliament for Loughborough in the 2015 and 2017 general elections and, in July 2017, she was elected by MPs on all sides of the House of Commons as chair of the Treasury Select Committee. She is the author of ‘Taught not Caught: Educating for Character in the 21st Century.’ Nicky Morgan , born in 1972, stood as the Conservative candidate for Loughborough at the 2005 General Election and again in 2010, when she was first elected to Parliament to be Loughborough’s voice in Westminster. Rt Hon Baroness Nicky Morgan, Member of House of Lords