Siân Berry
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Cllr Siân Berry AM |
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| Leader of the Green Party in the London Assembly | |
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Assumed office 6 May 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Jenny Jones |
| Member of the London Assembly for the Green Party (London-wide) |
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Assumed office 6 May 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Jenny Jones |
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Camden Borough Councillor for Highgate ward |
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Assumed office 22 May 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Maya De Souza |
| Principal Speaker of the Green Party | |
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In office 24 November 2006 – 30 November 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Caroline Lucas |
| Succeeded by | Caroline Lucas |
| Personal details | |
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9 July 1974 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Green Party of England and Wales |
| Residence | London |
| Education |
Pate's Grammar School Trinity College, Oxford |
| Known for |
Green Party Principal Speaker, 2006–07 London mayoral candidate, 2008 London mayoral candidate, 2016 |
| Religion | Radical Buddhism |
| Website | sianberry.org.uk |
Siân Rebecca Berry (born 9 July 1974) is an English politician and member of the Green Party of England and Wales. From 2006 to 2007, she was one of the Green Party's Principal Speakers. She was the party's candidate in the 2008 London mayoral election, and again in the 2016 election, at which she came third. She currently serves as a member of the London Assembly and the only Green Party councillor on Camden Council, representing Highgate.
Born and raised in Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, Berry was educated at Pate's Grammar School, a state grammar school in Cheltenham, where her father, John Berry, is a teacher, followed by Trinity College at the University of Oxford, where she studied Metallurgy and Science of Materials. Upon graduating in 1997, she moved to London.
Berry joined the Green Party aged 27 when working as a medical copywriter for large pharmaceutical companies, which she decided conflicted with her principles. She became increasingly politically active, beginning a new career in an ethical temping agency that dealt with a wide range of charitable organisations. She worked as a website manager at Imperial College London but left to focus on her mayoral campaign.
In her first major party political role as the Green Party Campaigns Co-ordinator, Berry led the Green Energy Works Campaign, calling for low carbon, non-nuclear energy to tackle climate change. She also led a campaign against the renewal of Britain's nuclear weapon, the Trident submarine, travelling to the nuclear submarine base in Faslane, Scotland, to protest.
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