Dee Doocey

Elizabeth Deirdre ('Dee') Doocey, Baroness Doocey OBE (born 2 May 1948), is a British Liberal Democrat politician and businesswoman, and a former Chair of the London Assembly. She was born Elizabeth Deirdre O'Keefe in Drumcondra, Dublin. She married Jim Doocey and they have one son, Mark.

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Dee Doocey was the Director of Finance and Administration at Liberal Party headquarters. She served as a councillor in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames from 1986 to 1994, and was chair of the council's Housing Committee. She has been election agent for Dr Vince Cable in her home constituency of Twickenham since 1992.

Dee Doocey was a member of the London Assembly from 2004 to 2012. She originally contested the South West London constituency in the 2004 London Assembly elections, but lost to the Conservative incumbent, Tony Arbour, by 4,067 votes. However, as the fifth person on the Liberal Democrat party list, she was elected as a London-wide member of the Assembly. She was re-elected for a second term in 2008 but did not contest the 2012 election.

Dee Doocey was Chair of the London Assembly from 2010 to 2011, and Deputy Chair from 2011 to 2012. From 2004 to 2010 and again from 2011 to 2012, she was chair of the Assembly's Economic Development, Culture, Sport & Tourism Committee (renamed the Economy, Culture and Sport Committee in May 2011), which, amongst other responsibilities, scrutinised preparations for the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.

From 2006 to 2012, Dee Doocey was a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority, which oversaw the Metropolitan Police. She chaired the MPA's Finance & Resources Committee from 2011 to 2012, and also chaired the MPA's Olympic & Paralympic sub-committee. She represented the Mayor of London on the Home Office Olympic Security Board from 2008 to 2012.

Before her election to the London Assembly, Dee Doocey ran a management consulting business, DD Enterprises.

Dee Doocey was created a life peer on 21 December 2010, as Baroness Doocey, and sits on the Liberal Democrat benches in the House of Lords.