Political career
Gibson was elected to Hertfordshire County Council in 2017, [5] winning her seat from the Conservatives who had held it since 2009.
Gibson was elected to the European Parliament at the 2019 European Parliamentary election. She was placed first on the party list in the East of England constituency,and was elected alongside Lucy Nethsingha,who was placed second.
She was a member of the Committee on International Trade where she played a key role in deciding whether the EU should lower tariffs or harmonise regulations between countries outside of the EU. [6] Gibson was also a member of the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly as well a Substitute [7] on three other EU Parliamentary bodies:the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs,the Committee on Regional Development and the Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
With more than 25 years’experience as a business communication professional,Gibson has worked with companies across the world;is a past international chair of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC);past-president of SIETAR UK (the Society for Intercultural Education,Training and Research);and a past International Group Chair of the CIPR (Chartered Institute of Public Relations).
Having come third in Stevenage at the 2017 general election,she was expected to stand as the Liberal Democrat candidate in Welwyn Hatfield in 2019 but did not. [8]
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