Roy Mark Clinton is a Gibraltarian

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, banker and author who is a member of the

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and currently serves as the shadow minister for finance in the Parliament of Gibraltar. Clinton obtained a bachelor's degree in business studies at the

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before working as an auditor for

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. He returned to Gibraltar to work in a management position for KPMG and later became chairman of the Gibraltar Bankers’ Association. He was elected to the Parliament of Gibraltar during the

2015 Gibraltar general election General elections were held in Gibraltar on 26 November 2015 to elect all 17 members to the third Gibraltar Parliament. Chief Minister Fabian Picardo announced the date of the election on Monday 19 October 2015 during a speech on the Gibraltar B ...

and in 2017 was appointed deputy leader of the GSD. He also currently serves as the shadow minister for finance and has held the position since 2017. From July 2017 to November 2017 he served as acting leader of the party. Outside of politics, Clinton has a strong interest in local history in Gibraltar and published a book ''Eliott’s Gold'' which serves as a semi-fictional account of

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which takes place in the aftermath of the Great Siege of Gibraltar.

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