Andy Street
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Andy Street CBE |
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| Mayor of the West Midlands | |
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Assumed office 8 May 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Office created |
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Andrew John Street 11 June 1963 Banbury, Oxfordshire, England |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater | Keble College, Oxford |
| Profession | Businessman |
| Website | www |
Andrew John Street, CBE (born 11 June 1963), is a British businessman and politician who was the managing director of John Lewis from 2007 to 2016. He is now the Conservative Mayor of the West Midlands, elected in the May 2017 mayoral election. As such, he is the United Kingdom's first openly gay directly-elected metro mayor.
Born in Banbury, Oxfordshire, Street moved to Birmingham with his parents, both scientists, when he was ten months old, growing up in Northfield and Solihull. He attended Green Meadow Infants School, Langley Junior School and King Edward's School in Edgbaston. He studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Keble College, Oxford, where he was President of the Oxford University Conservative Association in the Trinity term of 1984.
After graduating, Street harboured ambitions to be a social worker, but he was turned down by Birmingham City Council. He was also famously turned down for the Marks & Spencer training scheme. Street thus started his career at the John Lewis Partnership in 1985 as a trainee at Brent Cross.
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