Sharon Margaret Bowles is a Liberal Democrat politician. She was a Member of the European Parliament for the South East England region of the United Kingdom from 2005 to 2014. She sat in the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe grouping. She was educated at the independent Our Lady's Abingdon, the University of Reading and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Bowles has been described as the most influential Briton in the development of European Union policy, and also as one of the top ten most influential regulators in the European Union, and most influential woman. She was short-listed to be Governor of the Bank of England in 2012. On 15 August 2014 she became a non executive director of The London Stock Exchange Group PLC and of its subsidiary The London Stock Exchange plc. 

June 12th, 1953 in Oxford (Age 71)