Bill Rammell

Bill Rammell
Rammell in 2008
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire
In office August 2012 – December 2019
Chancellor	The Baroness Howells of St Davids John Bercow
Preceded by	Les Ebdon
Succeeded by	Rebecca Bunting
Minister of State for the Armed Forces
In office 8 June 2009 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Bob Ainsworth
Succeeded by	Nick Harvey
Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
In office 5 October 2008 – 8 June 2009
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Kim Howells
Succeeded by	Ivan Lewis
Minister of State for Higher Education
In office 11 May 2005 – 5 October 2008
Prime Minister	Tony Blair Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Kim Howells
Succeeded by	David Lammy
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
In office 28 October 2002 – 10 May 2005
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Denis MacShane
Succeeded by	The Lord Triesman
Member of Parliament for Harlow
In office 1 May 1997 – 12 April 2010
Preceded by	Jerry Hayes
Succeeded by	Robert Halfon
Personal details
Born	(1959-10-10) 10 October 1959 (age 64) London, England
Political party	Labour
Alma mater	Cardiff University

William Ernest Rammell (born 10 October 1959) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Harlow from 1997 until 2010, and served as a Minister of State in several departments from 2002. From August 2012 to December 2019 he was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire.^[1] He was chair of the university consortium MillionPlus from June to December 2019.^[2][3] In August 2021 he became president of the University of Kurdistan Hewler in Iraqi Kurdistan.^[4][5]