Seema Kennedy | |
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![]() Official portrait, 2020 | |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Immigration and Future Borders | |
In office 26 July 2019 – 16 December 2019 | |
Prime Minister | Boris Johnson |
Preceded by | Caroline Nokes |
Succeeded by | Kevin Foster |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Primary Care | |
In office 4 April 2019 – 26 July 2019 | |
Prime Minister | Theresa May |
Preceded by | Steve Brine |
Succeeded by | Jo Churchill |
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister | |
In office 27 June 2017 – 4 April 2019 | |
Prime Minister | Theresa May |
Preceded by | George Hollingbery |
Succeeded by | Andrew Bowie |
Member of Parliament for South Ribble | |
In office 7 May 2015 – 6 November 2019 | |
Preceded by | Lorraine Fullbrook |
Succeeded by | Katherine Fletcher |
Personal details | |
Born | Seema Louise Ghiassi 6 October 1974 Blackburn, Lancashire, England |
Political party | Conservative |
Children | 3 |
Alma mater | Pembroke College, Cambridge |
Website | Official website |
Seema Louise Ghiassi Kennedy OBE (née Ghiassi, Persian: سیما غیاثی;[1] 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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