Ronald Beadle, Liberal Democrat, Newcastle upon Tyne North

Name: Ronald Beadle

Candidate for: Newcastle upon Tyne North

Party: Liberal Democrat

Votes: 14,536

Profile:

A widely respected academic who has published work on ethics and management for the London think tank The Social Market Foundation. He also writes a newspaper column.

A former governor of Northumbria University from 2001 to 2003.

He was born in January 1966 and has a first class hons degree in politics and history from the LSE.

He is now a reader in business ethics at the Newcastle Business School, in Northumbria University.

Mr Beadle has been a councillor for the Low Fell ward in Gateshead since 1996.

He is married with two children.

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