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Preceded by
  
Danny Kennedy

Preceded by
  
Eileen Bell


Political party
  
Alliance

Name
  
Stephen Farry

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First Minister
  
Peter Robinson Arlene Foster (Acting)

deputy First Minister
  
Martin McGuinness John O'Dowd (Acting)

Born
  
22 April 1971 (age 52) Newtownards, Northern Ireland (
1971-04-22
)

Alma mater
  
Queen's University, Belfast

Role
  
Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly

Education
  
Queen's University Belfast

Party
  
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland

Office
  
Member of the Legislative Assembly since 2007

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Stephen Farry MLA (born 22 April 1971) is an Alliance Party of Northern Ireland politician from Newtownards.

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He has been a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for North Down since 2007, and was Minister for Employment and Learning in the Northern Ireland Executive until the post was abolished in 2016.

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Early career

Farry graduated from Queen's University, Belfast in 1992 with a BSSc in Politics and a PhD in International Relations in 2000. He was elected to the Assembly in the 2007 election for North Down, having first been elected to North Down Borough Council in 1993. In 1996, he was an unsuccessful candidate in the Northern Ireland Forum election in Fermanagh and South Tyrone.

He is a former General Secretary of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland. He was appointed an International Peace Scholar by the US Institute of Peace in 2005. In 2007, he became Mayor of North Down.

References

Stephen Farry Wikipedia