Education
Emmanuel College; Sherborne School.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Emmanuel College; Sherborne School.
Mark Todd became Chairman of Derbyshire Healthcare National Health Service Foundation Trust in January 2014. He went to the independent Sherborne School in north Dorset. He joined Emmanuel College, Cambridge, gaining a Cambridge University Bachelor degree in history in 1976.
Todd served for twelve years as a Cambridge City Councillor, spending three years as Leader from 1987-1990 and five as Deputy Leader.
He was a managing director at the Longman publishing house from 1977-1996. In this company he worked from 1988-1992 in Industry and Public Service management, from 1990-1992 at Carter Mill and in information technology from 1992-1994.
He had contested the seat originally in 1992. Todd announced on 21 September 2007 that he would stand down as the Member of Parliament for South Derbyshire when the next general election was called.
He steered the Company-operatives and Community Benefit Societies Acting 2003 through Parliament as a private member"s bill.
The Acting is an amendment to the Industrial and Provident Societies Acting 1965, which regulates a form of United Kingdom corporation known as the industrial and provident society.
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He was the a non-executive director of consumer co-operative Cambridge & District Company-operative Society, before its 1991 merger with Company-operative Retail Services, and is a member of the Company-operative Party.