Ed Davey
Sir Edward Jonathan Davey FRSA (born 25 December 1965) is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Kingston and Surbiton from 1997 to 2015.
He served in the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2012 to 2015, having previously served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, with responsibility for Employment Relations, Consumer and Postal Affairs, since 2010.
Davey was born in Annesley Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire. His father John died when Davey was four years old, and his mother Nina (née Stanbrook) eleven years later, following which he was brought up by his mother's parents. After attending senior school at the private independent Nottingham High School in the year above Ed Balls, where he was head boy in 1984, he sttended Jesus College, Oxford where he was awarded a first class BA degree in PPE in 1988. Whilst at Oxford, he was also elected to the JCR presidency of Jesus College.
As a teenager he worked at Pork Farms pork pie factory and at Boots. In 1989, he became an economics researcher for the Liberal Democrats, principally to Alan Beith, the party's then Treasury spokesman, while studying at Birkbeck College, London for a master's degree (MSc) in Economics. In 1993, he took up the position of management consultant with Omega Partners until being elected.
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