Nigel Dodds

Nigel Alexander Dodds, OBE, MP is a Northern Irish barrister and unionist politician. He is Member of Parliament for Belfast North, and deputy leader of the Democratic Unionist Party . He has been Lord Mayor of Belfast twice, and from 1993 has been General Secretary of the DUP.

Nigel Dodds was born in Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. He was educated at Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, and studied Law at St Johns College, Cambridge, from which he graduated with a firstclass degree, and where he won the university scholarship, McMahan studentship and Winfield Prize for Law. Upon graduation, he returned to Northern Ireland and, after studying at the Institute of Professional Legal Studies at Queens University, Belfast , was called to the Northern Irish bar. After working as a barrister, he worked at the Secretariat of the European Parliament from 198496.

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