Syed Kamall

The Right Honourable The Lord Kamall
Kamall in 2015
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Civil Society, Heritage, Tourism and Growth
In office 20 September 2022 – 28 October 2022
Prime Minister	Liz Truss
Preceded by	The Baroness Barran[a]
Succeeded by	Stuart Andrew (Sport, Tourism and Civil Society) The Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Arts and Heritage)
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Technology, Innovation and Life Sciences
In office 17 September 2021 – 20 September 2022
Prime Minister	Boris Johnson
Preceded by	The Lord Bethell
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Co-chair of the European Conservatives and Reformists
In office 12 June 2014 – 1 July 2019 Serving with Ryszard Legutko
Preceded by	Martin Callanan
Succeeded by	Raffaele Fitto
Leader of the Conservatives in the European Parliament
In office 19 November 2013 – 25 November 2014
Preceded by	Richard Ashworth
Succeeded by	Ashley Fox
Parliamentary offices Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal Assumed life peerage 11 February 2021 Member of the European Parliament for London In office 5 May 2005 – 1 July 2019 Preceded by Theresa Villiers Succeeded by Lance Forman
Personal details
Born	Syed Salah Kamall (1967-02-15) 15 February 1967 (age 57) London, England
Political party	Conservative
Spouse(s)	Sandira Beekoo (now formally styled The Lady Kamall)
Education	University of Liverpool LSE City University, London
Awards	Life Peer
Website	Official website Parliamentary website

Syed Salah Kamall, Baron Kamall (born 15 February 1967) is a British politician and academic, who from September to October 2022 served in HM Government as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.^[1][2] He was previously Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Innovation at the Department of Health and Social Care (2021–22).^[3]

Professor of Politics and International Relations at St Mary's University, Twickenham, Lord Kamall is also the academic and research director at the Institute of Economic Affairs, a classical liberal think tank based in London.

Kamall represented London as a Member of the European Parliament for the Conservative Party from 2005 to 2019, serving on the International Trade and Economic and Monetary Affairs Committees. From 2013 to 2014, Kamall served as Leader of the Conservatives in the European Parliament, then as Leader of the European Conservatives and Reformists, from June 2014 till 2019.

In December 2020, he was nominated by Prime Minister Boris Johnson as a Life Peer (cr. 28 Jan 2021).^[4]

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