The Rt Hon Justine Greening
Biography
Justine Greening was Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities from July 2016 to January 2018. She was elected Conservative MP for Putney, Roehampton and Southfields on 5 May 2005.
Education
Justine attended her local comprehensive school in Rotherham, South Yorkshire before going on to study economics at Southampton University. Justine has an MBA from the London Business School.
Career
Justine was a finance manager at Centrica plc before being elected as a Member of Parliament in May 2005. Following her election she was appointed as a Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party, with responsibility for youth.
As well as being a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee, in 2007 she became a Shadow Treasury Minister and in January 2009 became the Shadow Minister for London.
Justine was Economic Secretary to the Treasury from May 2010 to October 2011 and Secretary of State for Transport from October 2011 to September 2012. She served as Secretary of State for International Development from September 2012 until July 2016.