Sam Gyimah
Biography
Sam Gyimah was a joint Minister for Higher Education at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Department for Education from January to November 2018. He was elected the Conservative MP for East Surrey in 2010.
Education
He studied philosophy, politics and economics at Somerville College, Oxford.
Political career
Sam was:
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice from July 2016 to January 2018
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Education from May 2015 until July 2016
- Parliamentary Secretary at the Cabinet Office from July 2014 until March 2015
- a Government Whip from October 2013 to July 2014
- Parliamentary Private Secretary to Prime Minister David Cameron from 2012 to 2013
- a member of the International Development Select Committee from 2011 to 2012
- a member of the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission 2010 to 2012
Career outside politics
Sam spent 5 years working for Goldman Sachs and then went on to help build and develop a number of small businesses in the training, recruitment and internet sectors.
Personal life
Sam is married and has 2 children.
Previous roles in government
- Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Prisons and Probation
- Parliamentary Secretary (Minister for the Constitution)
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Childcare and Education
- Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
Announcements
Subscriptions
- Graduate earnings remain high
- UK Space Agency funds new experiments onboard the International Space Station
- Government boosts student choice with two-year degrees
- Universities Minister pledges to transform student choice
- Free satellite data to help tackle public sector challenges
- Business Secretary hosts first cross-government working group on future regulation
- New measure to tackle grade inflation at university
- Pressure grows on producers of illegal streaming devices and thieves of paid-for content
- Mercury's mysteries to be probed by British science
- Sam Gyimah: Green GB Week Clean Energy Innovation Summit