Amelia Womack
| Amelia Womack | |
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| Deputy Leader of The Green Party of England and Wales |
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Assumed office 1 September 2014 Serving with Shahrar Ali (2014–2016) |
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| Leader |
Natalie Bennett (2014–2016) Caroline Lucas (2016–) Jonathan Bartley (2016–) |
| Preceded by |
Will Duckworth Shahrar Ali (co-deputy, 2014–2016) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
12 January 1985 Newport, Wales |
| Political party | The Green Party of England and Wales |
| Alma mater |
Imperial College London University of Liverpool |
Amelia Helen Womack (born 12 January 1985) is a British politician. Amelia has been a Deputy Leader of The Green Party of England and Wales since September 2014 (alongside Shahrar Ali for the period 2014-16). She grew up in Newport in South Wales, before moving to London.
She was re-elected Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales in September 2016 for a second two-year term, a result announced at the party conference.
Womack attended Bassaleg School from 1996 to 2003. Following a BSc in Environmental Biology, at Liverpool University. Womack completed an MSc in environmental technology at Imperial College London in 2009, with a thesis entitled 'Who's afraid of environmental law? How the law of Ecocide can secure our environment for business resilience'.
Womack joined The Green Party around 2000. She stood as a Green candidate for Herne Hill ward on Lambeth Council, in the United Kingdom local elections, 2010, and for London in the 2014 European Parliament election, though she won neither seat.
She was elected deputy leader of The Green Party in September 2014, delivering her first speech in the role at the party's conference on 6 September.
She stood in the Camberwell and Peckham constituency in the 2015 United Kingdom general election, finishing third with just over 10% of the vote.
In September 2015, Womack announced her intention to stand for the Wales Green Party in the 2016 National Assembly for Wales election. An ITV article titled "Green deputy leader wants to switch to Welsh politics" wrote of Newport-born Womack. The Welsh Green Party announced in late October that she had been selected as the lead candidate for the regional South Wales Central (proportional representation) list as well as for the Cardiff Central constituency.
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