User: Mpntod
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Martin Paul Niebuhr Tod is a marketing executive for Vodafone and a Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for North West Hampshire.
He was born on August 22, 1964 in Liverpool, England. In 1968, he moved with his parents to Steyning, West Sussex. He was educated at Steyning Primary School, Mowden School in Hove, Lancing College and St John's College, Cambridge where he was Deputy President of the Cambridge Student Union and President of the Cambridge Union.
After graduation in 1987, he joined Procter & Gamble in Egham, Surrey. In 1989, he moved with P&G to Vienna, Austria, where he met his future wife, Michaela Meyer-Blase. In 1991, he moved again to Hofheim am Taunus near Frankfurt. In 1994, he moved with P&G to Prague, Czech Republic where he was appointed Marketing Director. In 1996, he married Michaela in Salzburg, Austria. Finally in 1998, he returned to the UK with P&G, responsible for various beauty care businesses in Central & Eastern Europe, and lived briefly in Richmond-upon-Thames, before moving to Chiswick.
On his return to the UK, he once again became actively involved in Liberal Democrat politics, becoming his local party membership secretary and then chair, and founding a national organisation for organising the Liberal Democrats internet campaigning - Liberal Democrats Online.
In 2001, Martin was Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Ealing, Acton & Shepherds Bush, achieving a 6.1% swing from Labour.
In 2002, he left P&G and started work with Vodafone. Later that year Martin and Michaela moved to Newbury, Berkshire.
His most recent political activity includes the setting up of a website - http://www.everylittlehurts.org.uk - to put pressure on Tesco to stop closing post offices in their newly acquired convenience stores.
Family History
His third name, Niebuhr, reflects his descent from the historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr, and the explorer Carsten Niebuhr.
Wikipedia activity
On February 15, 2004, he edited his first Wikipedia entry. Articles kicked off by Martin, or to which he has made a major contribution, include:
- Cambridge Union Society
- Cambridge University Students' Union
- Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Baronet
- Steyning
Categories include:
A full list of his contributions is available here
