Early Life and Education
Cable was born in York and attended Nunthorpe Grammar School. He then went up to Cambridge University (Fitzwilliam College), where he initially studied Natural Sciences and later switched to Economics. He was the President of the Cambridge Union in 1965. He was also a committee member and later President-elect of the Cambridge University Liberal Club, however he resigned from the Liberals before taking up the office of President.
After graduating in 1973 as a PhD in Economics from the University of Glasgow, Dr Cable studied further at Cambridge, where he was appointed an Overseas Development Institute Fellow (ODI Nuffield Fellow) before working in Kenya where he met his first wife.
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