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| Affiliation | Labour |
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2009-01-01 |
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| Name | David Miliband |
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, , United Kingdom |
| Email | None |
| Website | [Link] |
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July 15, 1965
(58 years)
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| Contributor | Some say... |
| Last Modifed | Ralphie
May 11, 2010 12:10pm |
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| Info | The son of a noted Marxist academic (Ralph Miliband), David Miliband was appointed as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on 5 May 2006.
He has overall responsibility for all departmental issues; represents the UK at the EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council and at the EU Environment Council; and leads for the UK in other international negotiations on sustainable development and climate change.
Before this, he was Minister of Communities and Local Government - his first Cabinet job – at the then Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, from May 2005 to May 2006.
He was elected as MP for South Shields in June 2001 and his previous Ministerial jobs have been Minister for the Cabinet Office (2004-5) and Schools Minister (2002-4).
Before that he headed up the Prime Minister's Policy Unit at Downing Street, after working as Head of Policy at the Office of the Leader of the Opposition.
From 1989-1994 he worked as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and from 1992-4 was Secretary of the Commission on Social Justice. His first job was for the National Council for Voluntary Organisations.
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