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Justine Greening
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Secretary of State for Education | |
In office 14 July 2016 – 8 January 2018 |
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Prime Minister | Theresa May |
Preceded by | Nicky Morgan |
Succeeded by | Damian Hinds |
Minister for Women and Equalities | |
In office 14 July 2016 – 8 January 2018 |
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Prime Minister | Theresa May |
Preceded by | Nicky Morgan |
Succeeded by | Amber Rudd |
Secretary of State for International Development | |
In office 4 September 2012 – 14 July 2016 |
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Prime Minister | David Cameron |
Preceded by | Andrew Mitchell |
Succeeded by | Priti Patel |
Secretary of State for Transport | |
In office 14 October 2011 – 4 September 2012 |
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Prime Minister | David Cameron |
Preceded by | Philip Hammond |
Succeeded by | Patrick McLoughlin |
Economic Secretary to the Treasury | |
In office 13 May 2010 – 14 October 2011 |
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Prime Minister | David Cameron |
Preceded by | Ian Pearson |
Succeeded by | Chloe Smith |
Shadow Minister for London | |
In office 19 January 2009 – 13 May 2010 |
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Leader | David Cameron |
Shadowing | Tony McNulty Tessa Jowell |
Preceded by | Bob Neill |
Succeeded by | Tessa Jowell |
Member of Parliament for Putney |
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Assumed office 5 May 2005 |
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Preceded by | Tony Colman |
Majority | 1,554 (3.3%) |
Personal details | |
Born | Rotherham, West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
30 April 1969
Nationality | British |
Political party | Conservative |
Alma mater | University of Southampton London Business School |
Justine Greening (born 30 April 1969) is a British politician of the Conservative Party serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Putney since the general election of 2005 and was the Secretary of State for Education from 2016 to 2018.
She was appointed Economic Secretary to the Treasury in May 2010 and then Secretary of State for Transport in October 2011. In September 2012, she was replaced by Patrick McLoughlin at the Department for Transport, and became Secretary of State for International Development. On 14 July 2016, she replaced Nicky Morgan as Secretary of State for Education in Theresa May's first government, a post she held until she resigned in the January 2018 Cabinet reshuffle.
Greening was born in Rotherham, where she attended Oakwood Comprehensive School. She studied Business Economics and Accounting at the University of Southampton, graduating with a first class honours degree in 1990. She obtained an Executive MBA from the London Business School in 2000.
Before entering parliament, she trained and qualified as an accountant, working as an accountant/finance manager for, amongst others, PricewaterhouseCoopers, GlaxoSmithKline and Centrica.
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Greening and actor Idris Elba at a Defeating Ebola virus conference 2014