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Born 15 February 1967 (age 57)
London, United Kingdom ( 1967-02-15 ) Education London School of Economics and Political Science, City University London, University of Liverpool Similar People Manfred Weber, Gabriele Zimmer, Guy Verhofstadt, Rebecca Harms, Nigel Farage Profiles | ||
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Syed Salah Kamall MEP (born 15 February 1967) is a British academic and politician who has represented London as a Member of the European Parliament for the Conservative Party since 2005, and since 2013 has been Leader of the Conservatives in the European Parliament. In June 2014, he became Chairman of the European Conservatives and Reformists in the European Parliament, and Co-Chairman in July 2017, along with Ryszard Legutko.
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- Knocking the T off cant Syed Kamall TEDxKingstonUponThames
- Biography
- Initial career
- Publications
- Political career
- References
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Biography
Kamall was born and brought up in Islington, London. He is a Muslim, and of Indo-Guyanese descent; his father migrated to London from Guyana in the 1950s. He was educated at The Latymer School in Edmonton and holds a BEng from the University of Liverpool, a MSc degree from the London School of Economics and a PhD from City University London.
Initial career
Kamall started his career as a business systems analyst for NatWest Bank Overseas Department (1989–91). He was a Management Fellow, University of Bath School of Management (1994–96), Management Research Fellow, Leeds University Business School (1996–97), Associate Director/Consultant, Omega Partners (1997–2001), and a Consultant at SSK Consulting (2001–05). Since 2004 he has been a Visiting Fellow at Leeds University Business School where he has lectured MBA students on international business and strategy, and supervised doctoral students' research.
Before entering the European Parliament, Kamall worked as a consultant to companies on marketing, strategy and public affairs. In 2003, he started a diversity recruitment business. He is a co-founder of the Global Business Research Institute (GBRI), an educational body conducting outreach to business executives, journalists and civil servants, promoting a greater understanding of globalisation and its consequences.
Publications
In 1996, Kamall wrote a book on EU telecommunications policy, and has written on multinational business and telecommunications policy for such books as Management in China: The Experience of Foreign Businesses; Trade and Investment in China: The European Experience; Political and Economic Relations Between Asia and Europe: New Challenges in Economics and Management, and in such journals as Management International Review and Transnational Corporations.
Political career
Kamall has been a member of the Conservatives since 1987 and has held various positions in the party since then: Chairman, Stockwell Ward, Vauxhall Conservative Association; Hon. Secretary, Bath Conservative Association CPC; Chairman, Eccleston Ward, and Chairman, Eccleston/Churchill CPC, Cities of London and Westminster Conservative Association; Executive Member, London Eastern Area Committee.
In May 2000, Kamall was a Conservative Candidate for the London Assembly. The following year, he was Conservative candidate for West Ham in the June 2001 General Election. He was placed fourth on the Conservative list in London for the 2004 European Parliament elections. The Conservatives won three seats and Kamall became a Member of the European Parliament in May 2005, after Theresa Villiers stepped down on being elected as an MP to the UK Parliament. In the European Parliament, he is a member of the Economic and Monetary Affairs, Legal Affairs and International Trade committees.
Kamall was placed on the 'A-list' of Conservative parliamentary candidates ahead of the 2010 election and was again returned to Brussels in 2014 representing London as an MEP.
He is also a contributor at the free market public policy think tank The Cobden Centre (one of Europe's foremost think tanks based around the Austrian School of economics).