Barbara Gibson

Barbara Gibson (born 25 August 1962)[1] is an American-born British politician and academic. Gibson was a Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East of England between 2019 and the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU.[2]

For the Canadian ambassador, see Barbara Gibson (diplomat).

Barbara Gibson
Barbara Gibson at the Liberal Democrats Spring Conference 2019 in March 2019
Member of the European Parliament
for East of England
In office
2 July 2019 – 31 January 2020
Preceded byJohn Flack
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Personal details
Born (1962-08-25) 25 August 1962
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
NationalityBritish
Political partyLiberal Democrats
Alma materBirkbeck, University of London

Early life

Gibson was born in Oklahoma City in 1962 and moved to the United Kingdom in 2002.[3]

Gibson earned a PhD in Intercultural Communication and has lectured on this topic in the context of global business for universities and business schools in the UK and across Europe, including Birkbeck, University of London.[4]

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).

She was expected to stand as the Liberal Democrat candidate in Welwyn Hatfield at the 2019 general election but she didn't.[8]

Personal life

Gibson lives with her husband and two dogs in Welwyn, Hertfordshire.[3]

Electoral history

2019 European Parliament election
European election 2019: East of England[9] (results)
List Candidates Votes % ±
Brexit Party Richard Tice (1)
Michael Heaver (3)
June Mummery (5)
Paul Hearn, Priscilla Huby, Sean Lever, Edmund Fordham		 604,715
(201,391.67)		 37.83 N/A
Liberal Democrats Barbara Gibson (2)
Lucy Nethsingha (6)
Fionna Tod, Stephen Robinson, Sandy Walkington, Marie Goldman, Jules Ewart		 361,563
(180,751.5)		 22.62 15.72
Green Catherine Rowett (4)
Rupert Read, Martin Schmierer, Fiona Radic, Paul Jeater, Pallavi Devulapalli, Jeremy Caddick		 202,460 12.67 4.17
Conservative Geoffrey Van Orden (7)
John Flack, Joe Rich, Thomas McLaren, Joel Charles, Wazz Mughal, Thomas Smith		 163,830 10.25 -18.15
Labour Alex Mayer, Chris Vince, Sharon Taylor, Alvin Shum, Anna Smith, Adam Scott, Javeria Hussain 139,490 8.73 -8.57
Change UK Emma Taylor, Neil Carmichael, Bhavna Joshi, Michelle de Vries, Amanda Gummer, Thomas Graham, Roger Casale 58,274 3.65 N/A
UKIP Stuart Agnew, Paul Oakley, Elizabeth Jones, William Ashpole, Alan Graves, John Wallace, John Whitby 54,676 3.42 -31.08
English Democrat Robin Tilbrook, Charles Vickers, Bridget Vickers, Paul Wiffen 10,217 0.64 -1.09
Independent Attila Csordas 3,230 0.20 N/A
Rejected ballots 9,589
Turnout 1,603,017 36.37% +0.4%
gollark: So this is a mess. PotatOS is actually shipping a mildly different ECC library with a different curve because steamport provided the ECC code ages ago.
gollark: I mean, what do you expect to happen if you do something unsupported and which creates increasingly large problems each time you do it?
gollark: <@151391317740486657> Do you know what "unsupported" means? PotatOS is not designed to be used this way.
gollark: Specifically, 22 bytes for the private key and 21 for the public key on ccecc.py and 25 and 32 on the actual ingame one.
gollark: <@!206233133228490752> Sorry to bother you, but keypairs generated by `ccecc.py` and the ECC library in use in potatOS appear to have different-length private and public keys, which is a problem.EDIT: okay, apparently it's because I've been accidentally using a *different* ECC thing from SMT or something, and it has these parameters instead:```---- Elliptic Curve Arithmetic---- About the Curve Itself-- Field Size: 192 bits-- Field Modulus (p): 65533 * 2^176 + 3-- Equation: x^2 + y^2 = 1 + 108 * x^2 * y^2-- Parameters: Edwards Curve with c = 1, and d = 108-- Curve Order (n): 4 * 1569203598118192102418711808268118358122924911136798015831-- Cofactor (h): 4-- Generator Order (q): 1569203598118192102418711808268118358122924911136798015831---- About the Curve's Security-- Current best attack security: 94.822 bits (Pollard's Rho)-- Rho Security: log2(0.884 * sqrt(q)) = 94.822-- Transfer Security? Yes: p ~= q; k > 20-- Field Discriminant Security? Yes: t = 67602300638727286331433024168; s = 2^2; |D| = 5134296629560551493299993292204775496868940529592107064435 > 2^100-- Rigidity? A little, the parameters are somewhat small.-- XZ/YZ Ladder Security? No: Single coordinate ladders are insecure, so they can't be used.-- Small Subgroup Security? Yes: Secret keys are calculated modulo 4q.-- Invalid Curve Security? Yes: Any point to be multiplied is checked beforehand.-- Invalid Curve Twist Security? No: The curve is not protected against single coordinate ladder attacks, so don't use them.-- Completeness? Yes: The curve is an Edwards Curve with non-square d and square a, so the curve is complete.-- Indistinguishability? No: The curve does not support indistinguishability maps.```so I might just have to ship *two* versions to keep compatibility with old signatures.

References
  1. "9th parliamentary term | Barbara Ann GIBSON | MEPs | European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  2. "The UK's European elections 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
  3. "Barbara Gibson". East of England Liberal Democrats. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  4. "Barbara Gibson". Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication. Birkbeck. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
  5. "Election results for Haldens (71), 4 May 2017". democracy.hertfordshire.gov.uk. 4 May 2017.
  6. McLaughlin, Charlotte. "MEP from Welwyn Garden City joins European Parliament committee". Welwyn Hatfield Times. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  7. "Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament - Rule 200 - Substitutes - March 2019". www.europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  8. "Liberal Democrat Parliamentary candidates". Mark Pack. 9 September 2019. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  9. "Candidates for European election". Chelmsford City Council. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
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