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Sam Gyimah

British politician

Samuel Phillip Gyimah (; born 10 August 1976)[1] is a British politician and banker who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Surrey from 2010 to 2019.[2] First elected as a Conservative, Gyimah rebelled against the government to block a no-deal Brexit and had the Conservative whip removed in September 2019. He subsequently joined the Liberal Democrats and stood unsuccessfully for them in Kensington at the 2019 general election. Gyimah now serves on the board of Goldman Sachs International.

Between 2014 and 2018, after serving as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, David Cameron, and as a government whip, Gyimah was promoted to Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State.[3][4][5] He served as the Minister for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation from January 2018 until he resigned on 30 November 2018 in protest at Theresa May's Brexit withdrawal agreement.[6]

Early life

Gyimah was born on 10 August 1976 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.&#

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Biography of Sam Gyimah

Sam Gyimah was elected as the Member of Parliament for East Surrey in May 2010. He was appointed as a Government Whip in October 2013, having previously been Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Prime Minister. His interests include the economy, education, planning and the local environment as well as International Development issues.

Sam was born in Beaconsfield, Berkshire but spent ten years of his childhood in Ghana, after his mother, a nurse, moved after she separated from his father and brought up her three children on her own. Sam was educated at a state school in Ghana and a comprehensive college in Hertfordshire before going on to earn a place at Somerville College, Oxford University, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He worked in the City for five years before leaving to use his experience to help build and develop a number of small businesses in the training, recruitment and internet sectors. He was voted CBI

Sam Gyimah

Sam Gyimah was a joint Minister for Higher Education at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Department for Education from January to November 2018. He was elected the Conservative MP for East Surrey in 2010.

Education

He studied philosophy, politics and economics at Somerville College, Oxford.

Political career

Sam was:

  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice from July 2016 to January 2018
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Education from May 2015 until July 2016
  • Parliamentary Secretary at the Cabinet Office from July 2014 until March 2015
  • a Government Whip from October 2013 to July 2014
  • Parliamentary Private Secretary to Prime Minister David Cameron from 2012 to 2013
  • a member of the International Development Select Committee from 2011 to 2012
  • a member of the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission 2010 to 2012

Sam spent 5 years working for Goldman Sachs and then went on to help build and develop a number of small businesses in the training, recruitment and intern

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