Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Immigration and Future Borders
In office 26 July 2019 – 16 December 2019
Prime Minister
Boris Johnson
Preceded by
Caroline Nokes
Succeeded by
Kevin Foster
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Primary Care
In office 4 April 2019 – 26 July 2019
Prime Minister
Theresa May
Preceded by
Steve Brine
Succeeded by
Jo Churchill
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
In office 27 June 2017 – 4 April 2019
Prime Minister
Theresa May
Preceded by
George Hollingbery
Succeeded by
Andrew Bowie
Member of Parliament for South Ribble
In office 7 May 2015 – 6 November 2019
Preceded by
Lorraine Fullbrook
Succeeded by
Katherine Fletcher
Personal details
Born
Seema Louise Ghiassi
(1974-10-06) 6 October 1974 (age 49) Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Political party
Conservative
Children
3
Alma mater
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Website
Official website
Seema Louise Ghiassi KennedyOBE (néeGhiassi, Persian: سیما غیاثی;[1] born 6 October 1974) is a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at both the Department of Health and Social Care and the Home Office in 2019. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Ribble in Lancashire from 2015 to 2019, and also served as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister from 2017 to 2019. She was the first female MP of Iranian heritage to take a seat in the House of Commons.
Ghiassi attended Westholme School, and studied French and Persian at Pembroke College, Cambridge. She qualified as a commercial property solicitor, and worked for Slaughter and May, and Bevan Brittan, before working for her family's commercial property business Tustin Developments Ltd.
^"اختصاصی کیهان لندن؛ مصاحبه با سیما غیاثی کندی", Kayhan London, 5 September 2016
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