David Miliband information

The Right Honourable
David Miliband
The Right Honourable David Miliband
	Official portrait, c. 2007–10
President of the International Rescue Committee
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 1 September 2013
Preceded by	George Erik Rupp
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
	In office; 28 June 2007 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Margaret Beckett
Succeeded by	William Hague
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	In office; 5 May 2006 – 27 June 2007
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Margaret Beckett
Succeeded by	Hilary Benn
Minister of State for Communities and Local Government
	In office; 11 May 2005 – 5 May 2006
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Ruth Kelly
Prime Minister
Junior ministerial offices
Minister of State for the Cabinet Office
	In office; 16 December 2004 – 11 May 2005
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Douglas Alexander (2003)
Succeeded by	David Laws (2012)
Minister of State for Schools
	In office; 24 October 2002 – 16 December 2004
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Stephen Timms
Succeeded by	Stephen Twigg
Leader
Shadow Cabinet posts
Shadow Foreign Secretary
	In office; 11 May 2010 – 8 October 2010
Leader	Harriet Harman (acting) ; Ed Miliband
Preceded by	William Hague
Succeeded by	Yvette Cooper
Prime Minister
Further offices held
Director of the Number 10 Policy Unit
	In office; 2 May 1997 – 7 June 2001
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Norman Blackwell
Succeeded by	Andrew Adonis
Member of Parliament; for South Shields
	In office; 7 June 2001 – 15 April 2013
Preceded by	David Clark
Succeeded by	Emma Lewell-Buck
Personal details
Born	David Wright Miliband; 15 July 1965 (age 58); London, England
Political party	Labour
Spouse	Louise Shackelton (m. 1998)
Children	2 sons
Parents	Ralph Miliband; Marion Kozak;
Relatives	Ed Miliband (brother)
Residence(s)	Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Education	Bradford Grammar School; Haverstock School
Alma mater	University of Oxford; Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Awards	Kennedy Scholarship (1988)
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David Wright Miliband (born 15 July 1965) is the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the International Rescue Committee and a British Labour Party former politician.^[1] He was the Foreign Secretary from 2007 to 2010^[2] and the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Shields in North East England from 2001 to 2013. He and his brother, Ed, were the first siblings to sit in the Cabinet simultaneously since Lord Edward and Oliver Stanley in 1938. He was a candidate for Labour Party leadership in 2010, following the departure of Gordon Brown, but was defeated by his brother and subsequently left politics.

He started his career at the Institute for Public Policy Research. Aged 29, he became Tony Blair's Head of Policy while the Labour Party was in opposition, and he was a contributor to Labour's manifesto for the 1997 election, which brought the party to power. Blair subsequently made him head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit from 1997 to 2001, at which point Miliband was elected to Parliament for the seat of South Shields.

Miliband spent the next few years in various junior ministerial posts, including at the Department for Education and Skills, before joining the Cabinet in 2006 as Environment Secretary. His tenure in this post saw Climate change consolidated as a priority for policymakers and on the succession of Gordon Brown as Prime Minister in 2007, Miliband was promoted to become Foreign Secretary.^[3] At the age of 41, he became the youngest person to hold that office since David Owen 30 years earlier. In September 2010, Miliband narrowly lost the Labour leadership election to his brother Ed. On 29 September 2010, he announced that to avoid "constant comparison" with his brother, and because of the "perpetual, distracting and destructive attempts to find division where there is none, and splits where they don't exist, all to the detriment of the party's cause", he would not stand for the Shadow Cabinet.^[4]

On 15 April 2013, Miliband resigned from Parliament in order to take up the posts of President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee in New York City, which triggered a by-election in South Shields.^[2]^[5]^[6]

^ Cite error: The named reference :1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ ^a ^b "David Miliband — Somerville College Oxford". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 23 September 2020. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
^ "David Miliband – President & CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC)". rescue.org. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
^ Mulholland, Hélène (29 September 2010). "David Miliband quits frontline politics". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 30 June 2009. Retrieved 29 September 2010.
^ Cite error: The named reference BBC21947497 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ "May 2 the likely date for South Shields by-election". Shields Gazette. 28 March 2013. Archived from the original on 30 June 2009. Retrieved 29 September 2013.

[:1-1] Cite error: The named reference :1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[:0-2] "David Miliband — Somerville College Oxford". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 23 September 2020. Retrieved 24 May 2016.

[3] "David Miliband – President & CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC)". rescue.org. Retrieved 24 May 2016.

[Mulholland-29-09-2010-4] Mulholland, Hélène (29 September 2010). "David Miliband quits frontline politics". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 30 June 2009. Retrieved 29 September 2010.

[BBC21947497-5] Cite error: The named reference BBC21947497 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[6] "May 2 the likely date for South Shields by-election". Shields Gazette. 28 March 2013. Archived from the original on 30 June 2009. Retrieved 29 September 2013.

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