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 PROSPECTIVE PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATE

TANIA BRISBY

Tania Brisby is 38 years old and married to Julian Popov with two children, George who is 3 years old and Alexander who is just two years old.  Tania was educated at St Paul's Girls' School in London and Christ Church, Oxford University where she won a scholarship in 1979 to study Modern Languages.  Tania's non-political career has been in investment banking, advising companies and Governments on finance, acquisitions and privatisation.  Tania is currently a director at Deutsche Bank in London responsible for advisory business in Central Europe.  Over the years Tania has worked on business in North America, Europe and Japan and was posted for two years to Tokyo by the NatWest Group.

Between 1991 and 1994 she took a leave of absence from the City to work in Sofia on a European Union aid programme advising the post-Communist Bulgarian Government and Parliament on industrial restructuring, privatisation and the development of the laws and institutions necessary for a market economy - such as an anti-monoply agency.   In Bulgaria, Tania met her husband Julian who is a writer and educational consultant.  Julian was the first Vice Chancellor of the New Bulgarian University,  which was established in 1990 to promote de-politicised higher education.   Tania was keen to go to Eastern Europe after the fall of the Communism, as her mother Liliana Brisby was a Bulgarian who came to England after the war and worked as an active 'Cold Warrior' at the Foreign Office and the BBC World Service, she died in 1998.  Tania's father, Michael Brisby was an English civil engineer who died in 1965 and she has two elder brothers who live with their families in London.  

Tania has always been a conservative supporter,  joining the party formally in 1995.  She served as Deputy Chairman and then Chairman of the Camberwell and Peckham Conservative Association.  She has politics in her blood as on her Bulgarian side, her great great grandfather was the first Prime Minister of the country after the fall of the Ottoman Empire and her great grandfather was Prime Minister in 1901 and again in 1913.  

Tania and the family like swimming, sailing, riding, walking and sightseeing.    Tania plays the piano and speaks French, German, Italian and Bulgarian.  Tania is a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

Tania believes that the key issues for Bridgend and South Wales are jobs, education, the protection of our farmers and rural environment and the conservation of the coastline.

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