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Alastair Ross

Alastair Ross
Alastair Ross DUP.jpg
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for Antrim East
Assumed office
May 2007
Preceded by George Dawson
Personal details
Born (1981-03-04) 4 March 1981 (age 35)
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Nationality British
Political party Democratic Unionist Party
Alma mater University of Dundee
Religion Protestant

Alastair Ross (born 4 March 1981) is a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.

Ross studied at Friends' School in Lisburn and at the University of Dundee before returning to study Irish Politics at Queen's University Belfast. While there, he became a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) activist. In 2005, he began working for Sammy Wilson as a parliamentary researcher, following a spell in DUP headquarters as a press officer in the lead-up and during the 2005 general election. For the Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2007, he was the campaign manager for the party's three candidates in East Antrim, all of whom were elected.

Ross is currently a junior minister in the Executive Office of the Northern Ireland Assembly. He previously served on the Northern Ireland Policing Board, as well as the Assembly Committees for Standards and Privileges, Environment, Education, Justice, Regional Development, Employment and Learning, and the ad hoc Committee on Sexual Offences.

He is a member of the management committee of Lisnagarvey Hockey Club. His predecessor George Dawson, was one of the three DUP MLAs in East Antrim, and died shortly after the election. Ross was nominated by a closed list submitted by Dawson as his replacement.


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