Seema Kennedy

Seema Kennedy
Official portrait, 2020
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Immigration and Future Borders
In office
26 July 2019 – 16 December 2019
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded byCaroline Nokes
Succeeded byKevin Foster
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Primary Care
In office
4 April 2019 – 26 July 2019
Prime MinisterTheresa May
Preceded bySteve Brine
Succeeded byJo Churchill
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
In office
27 June 2017 – 4 April 2019
Prime MinisterTheresa May
Preceded byGeorge Hollingbery
Succeeded byAndrew Bowie
Member of Parliament
for South Ribble
In office
7 May 2015 – 6 November 2019
Preceded byLorraine Fullbrook
Succeeded byKatherine Fletcher
Personal details
Born
Seema Louise Ghiassi

(1974-10-06) 6 October 1974 (age 50)
Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Political partyConservative
Children3
Alma materPembroke College,
Cambridge
WebsiteOfficial website

Seema Louise Ghiassi Kennedy OBE (née Ghiassi, Persian: سیما غیاثی;[1] born 6 October 1974) is a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at both the Department of Health and Social Care and the Home Office in 2019. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Ribble in Lancashire from 2015 to 2019, and also served as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister from 2017 to 2019. She was the first female MP of Iranian heritage to take a seat in the House of Commons.

Ghiassi attended Westholme School, and studied French and Persian at Pembroke College, Cambridge. She qualified as a commercial property solicitor, and worked for Slaughter and May, and Bevan Brittan, before working for her family's commercial property business Tustin Developments Ltd.

  1. ^ "اختصاصی کیهان لندن؛ مصاحبه با سیما غیاثی کندی", Kayhan London, 5 September 2016