Alan Gemmell

Alan Gemmell
Official portrait, 2024
Member of Parliament
for Central Ayrshire
Assumed office
4 July 2024
Preceded byPhilippa Whitford
Majority6,869 (16.6%)
Personal details
Born (1978-04-06) 6 April 1978 (age 46)
Political partyLabour
Spouse
Damien Lee Stirk
(m. 2015)
Alma materUniversity of Glasgow

Alan Gemmell OBE FRSA (born 6 April 1978) is a Scottish Labour Party politician and diplomat, who has served as the member of parliament (MP) for Central Ayrshire since 2024.[1]

He is co-founder of FiveFilms4Freedom and a former director of the British Council in India. Gemmel was appointed as Chief Executive of the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council in December 2018.[2]

  1. ^ "Former UK diplomat chosen as Labour's Central Ayrshire candidate for UK election". Ayr Advertiser. 14 December 2023. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
  2. ^ "Alan Gemmell Appointed as CEO of the CWEIC". cweic.org. 11 September 2018. Retrieved 29 August 2019.