Adam Afriyie
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Adam Afriyie MP |
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Member of Parliament for Windsor |
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Assumed office 5 May 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Michael Trend |
| Majority | 25,083 (50.0%) |
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4 August 1965 Wimbledon, London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater | Wye College |
| Profession | Politician |
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Official website Profile |
Adam Afriyie (born 4 August 1965) is a British Conservative Party politician, and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Windsor. He was first elected in the 2005 general election and re-elected in the 2010 and 2015 elections.
The son of an English mother and a Ghanaian father, Afriyie was born in Wimbledon, London, and grew up on a council estate in Peckham, attending the local Oliver Goldsmith Primary School. He was educated at Addey and Stanhope School and has a BSc, degree in agricultural economics from Wye College.
Afriyie has seven half-siblings and one brother. He said of his upbringing: "I never knew my father until I was much older and my mother, Gwen, brought us up alone. She was my rock, the gel at the centre of my life, although her tumultuous relationships with different men made for a constant state of flux at the boundaries of our family."
Afriyie is chairman of Connect Support Services, an IT support company he set up in 1993. He owned two-thirds of DeHavilland, a political monitoring company, which was sold to publishers Emap in 2005 for £18 million. He was also a regional finalist in the 2003 Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the year awards. He was a Governor of the Museum of London, a trustee of the Museum in Docklands and a director of Policy Exchange, a centre-right policy body.
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