Alok Sharma
Alok Sharma (born 7 September 1967)[1] is a British politician, serving as the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy from February 2020. He was previously the Secretary of State for International Development from July 2019 to February 2020. He was elected in 2010 as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Reading West.
Sharma previously served as Housing Minister between 2017 and 2018, and as Employment Minister from 2018 to 2019.
Sharma was born in Agra, India, but moved to Reading with his parents when he was five years old. His father Prem was involved in Conservative politics in Reading and became chairman of the Berkshire area of Conservatives and helped establish the Conservative Parliamentary Friends of India. Sharma was raised in the Reading suburbs of Earley and Whitley Wood and attended Presentation College, Reading Blue Coat School in Sonning and the University of Salford, from where he graduated with a BSc in Applied Physics with Electronics in 1988.
Sharma subsequently qualified as a chartered accountant, training with Deloitte Haskins & Sells in Manchester before moving into corporate finance advisory with Nikko Securities and then Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, where he held senior roles based in London, Stockholm and Frankfurt. Sharma was an adviser to clients in the corporate and private-equity sector on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, listings and restructurings.
Sharma is a governor of a local primary school in Reading. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Previously he served as a chairman of the political think-tank the Bow Group's economic affairs committee.
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