Syed Salah Kamall, Baron Kamall (born 15 February 1967) is a British

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and

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, who from September to October 2022 served in

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Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (or just Parliamentary Secretary, particularly in departments not led by a Secretary of State (United Kingdom), Secretary of State) is the lowest of three tiers of Minister (government), government minist ...

at the

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. He was previously

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at the

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(2021–22).

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of Politics and International Relations at

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, Lord Kamall is also the Academic & Research Director at the

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, a

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based in

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. Kamall represented

as a

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for the

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from 2005 to 2019, serving on the

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and Economic and Monetary Affairs Committees. From 2013 to 2014, Kamall served as

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of the Conservatives in the

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, then as Leader of the

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, from June 2014 till 2019. In December 2020, he was nominated by Prime Minister

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as a

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(''cr.'' 28 Jan 2021).

Biography

Kamall was born in

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and brought up in Edmonton, London. He is a

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, and of

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descent; his father migrated to London from

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in the 1950s. Educated at

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, he then graduated from the

University of Liverpool , mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning , established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 200 ...

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, before receiving an MSc

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from the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

and later a PhD from

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Early career

Kamall started his career as a business systems analyst for

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Overseas Department (1989–91). He was a Management Fellow,

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(1994–96), Management Research Fellow,

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(1996–97), Associate Director/Consultant, Omega Partners (1997–2001), and a Consultant at SSK Consulting (2001–05). He was elected a

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of Leeds University Business School in 2004 where he lectured MBA students on international business and strategy, and supervised doctoral students' research. Before entering the European Parliament, Kamall worked as a consultant to companies on marketing, strategy and public affairs. In 2003, he started a diversity recruitment business. He is a co-founder of the Global Business Research Institute (GBRI), an educational body conducting outreach to business executives, journalists and civil servants, promoting a greater understanding of globalisation and its consequences.

Political career

Kamall has been a member of the Conservatives since 1987 and has held various positions in the party since then: Chairman,

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Ward,

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Conservative Association; Hon. Secretary, Bath Conservative Association CPC; Chairman, Eccleston Ward, and Chairman, Eccleston/Churchill CPC, Cities of London and Westminster Conservative Association; Executive Member, London Eastern Area Committee. In May 2000, Kamall was a Conservative Candidate for the

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. The following year, he was Conservative

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for

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in the June 2001 General Election. He was placed fourth on the Conservative list in London for the 2004 European Parliament elections. The Conservatives won three seats and Kamall became a

in May 2005, after

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stepped down on being elected as an MP to the UK Parliament. In the

, he served on the Economic and Monetary Affairs, Legal Affairs and International Trade committees. Kamall was placed on the "

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" of Conservative parliamentary candidates ahead of the 2010 election and was again returned to

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representing

as an MEP. He is also a contributor to the

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public policy think tank The Cobden Centre, one of Europe's pre-eminent think tanks based around the

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of economics. In 2016, Kamall backed voting to leave the European Union in the run up to the Brexit referendum. In October 2018, during a debate in which Udo Bullman, the German leader of the Socialists and Democrats Group linked the political right to extremism, Kamall responded by saying that Nazis were National Socialists who followed left wing policies. There was an angry reaction from the Left and he apologised for any offence caused. However, he was angered himself when

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, issued a press release which falsely accused Kamall of calling the S&D Nazis. In the 2019 European Parliament election, Syed Kamall lost his

ary seat. Prime Minister

then nominated him as a

in December 2020, as announced in the

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list. On 28 January 2021, he was created Baron Kamall, ''of Edmonton in the London Borough of Enfield'', being introduced to the

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the following month. On 17 September 2021, Lord Kamall was appointed

at the

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, in the second

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of the

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Publications

In 1996, Kamall wrote a book on EU telecommunications policy, and has written on multinational business and telecommunications policy for such books as ''Management in China: The Experience of Foreign Businesses''; ''Trade and Investment in China: The European Experience''; ''Political and Economic Relations Between Asia and Europe: New Challenges in Economics and Management'', and in such journals as ''Management International Review'' and ''Transnational Corporations''.

Personal life

Kamall follows

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, and, in 1997, married Sandira Bye Beekoo, a fellow Conservative. After leaving the

, Syed Kamall became the Academic and Research Director at the

and Professor of International Relations and Politics at

. A keen player of the

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, Kamall sang in a blues band called "Exiled in Brussels", with Latvian MEP

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References

External links

www.syedkamall.com

www.conservatives.com – Syed Kamall

"European multinational activity in telecommunications services in the People’s Republic of China"
''(J Clegg, S Kamall, M Leung, Management International Review, 1996.)''
www.globalisation.eu

www.uklibertyleague.org

www.cityam.com

www.parliament.uk
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Biography

Early career

Political career

Publications

Personal life

See also

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