Sam Gyimah
Samuel Phillip Gyimah (pronunciation: /ˈdʒiːmɑː/; born 10 August 1976) is a British Conservative Party politician. A Conservative Party A-List candidate, he was elected as the Member of Parliament for East Surrey at the 2010 general election.
In July 2014, after serving as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister and a government whip, Gyimah was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Childcare and Education as well as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State with particular focus upon the constitution. Following the general election in May 2015, Gyimah was reappointed to the education brief. He is currently the Prisons Minister.
Gyimah was born in Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire, in southern England. When he was six years old his parents split up and his mother returned to her native Ghana with Gyimah and his younger brother and sister while his father remained in the UK. For the next 10 years Gyimah attended Achimota School, a state school in Ghana, before returning to the UK to take his GCSEs and A-levels at Freman College, a state school in Buntingford, Hertfordshire. He then went on to Somerville College at the University of Oxford, where he read Politics, Philosophy and Economics, and where he was elected President of the Oxford Union.
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