Seema Kennedy
British Conservative politician (born 1974)
Biography
Seema Louise Ghiassi Kennedy (née Ghiassi, Persian: سیما غیاثی; born 6 October 1974) is a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at both the Department of Health and Social Care and the Home Office in 2019. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Ribble in Lancashire from 2015 to 2019, and also served as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister from 2017 to 2019. She was the first female MP of Iranian heritage to take a seat in the House of Commons.
Ghiassi attended Westholme School, and studied French and Persian at Pembroke College, Cambridge. She qualified as a commercial property solicitor, and worked for Slaughter and May, and Bevan Brittan, before working for her family's commercial property business Tustin Developments Ltd.
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Career highlights
Career & roles
- member of the 57th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- member of the 56th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Minister of State for Immigration
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Prevention, Public Health and Primary Care
- Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
Employers / organisations
- Slaughter and May
- Bevan Brittan
Awards & honours (1)
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire
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