Education
Gill was awarded her first degree by Liverpool Polytechnic (BA Hons Social Studies) in 1979 and a postgraduate professional qualification from the Chartered Institute of Housing in 1986. She completed the London Business School senior executive programme in 1996. She is fluent in several Asian languages, Italian, and is currently studying French and German. She claims this has proved invaluable in promoting trade links with South Asia as part of her work as President of the European Parliament Delegation for Relations with India, to which she was elected in 2007.
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