The Green Party have selected Dr Derek Wall to fight the Windsor constituency in the General Election.
Dr Wall, aged 44, lives in Cranbourne. He teaches economics at Duff Miller College in Kensington and Goldsmith College, University of London. He has three sons, Vincent 15, Larry 12 and Peter 8 who go to local state schools.
He was Green Party Principal Speaker between 2006 and 2008, the post closest to that of leader. He is currently completing two new books on green politics and is a columnist with the Morning Star newspaper. He went to his first party meeting in September 1979 and joined the Ecology Party, as the Green Party used to be called, in 1980
Dr Wall fought the Windsor constituency at the last General Election and is a former Winkfield Parish Councillor.
The Green Party beat Labour in the Borough in June's European Elections, where Dr Wall was also a candidate.
Dr Wall said 'I am proud to have been selected by Green Party members to fight the Windsor constituency. Green politics is the politics of environmental protection and social justice. I am also proud of all the campaigning the goes on locally in the constituency to protect the local environment and local services from the battle to keep the fire station in Windsor to opposition to the Tescos at Datchet and the campaign against the great wall in Winkfield.'
Dr Wall works closely with the indigenous leader Hugo Blanco in Peru and with Peruvian communities battling to save the Amazon rainforest from destruction.
'The Green Party believes in fighting for a future for the next generation and resisting cuts in public services that will impoverish us now. Tackling climate change together with calling for a strong British economy that is not dependent on financial services but based on real job creation are my main priorities.'
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