Lisa Nandy

Lisa Nandy MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
In office 13 September 2015 – 27 June 2016
Leader	Jeremy Corbyn
Preceded by	Caroline Flint
Succeeded by	Barry Gardiner
Member of Parliament for Wigan
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 May 2010
Preceded by	Neil Turner
Majority	14,236 (31.4%)
Personal details
Born	Lisa Eva Nandy (1979-08-09) 9 August 1979 (age 37) Manchester, England, UK
Political party	Labour
Alma mater	Newcastle University University of London

Lisa Eva Nandy (born 9 August 1979) is a British Labour Party politician. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wigan since 2010.

Nandy was born in Manchesterin a Bengali family, to Luise Nandy (née Byers) and her then-husband Dipak Nandy. Luise Byers' father, Lord (Frank) Byers, had been a Liberal Party MP and held many offices in the party. Nandy grew up both in Manchester and in Bury, Greater Manchester, to where her family later moved.

Nandy was educated at Parrs Wood High School, a girls' comprehensive school in East Didsbury in Manchester, followed by Newcastle University, Tyne and Wear, from which she graduated in 2001 with a degree in politics and obtained a master's degree in public policy from Birkbeck, University of London.

Nandy has worked in the voluntary sector, as a researcher at the homelessness charity Centrepoint from 2003 to 2005, and then as senior policy adviser at The Children's Society from 2005, where she specialised in issues facing young refugees, also acting as adviser to the Children's Commissioner for England and to the Independent Asylum Commission.

Nandy served as a Labour councillor in the Shepherds Bush Green ward, Hammersmith and Fulham, from 4 May 2006 to 10 May 2010. She was selected as the Labour parliamentary candidate for Wigan constituency in February 2010 from an all-women shortlist. Elected to parliament on 7 May 2010, she became the constituency's first female MP and one of the first six Asian female MPs elected.

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