The Right Honourable
Kwasi Kwarteng
MP
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Official Portrait, 2021
Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Incumbent
Assumed office
8 January 2021
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded byAlok Sharma
Minister of State for Business, Energy and Clean Growth
In office
24 July 2019 – 8 January 2021
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded byClaire Perry
Succeeded byAnne-Marie Trevelyan
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union
In office
16 November 2018 – 24 July 2019
Prime MinisterTheresa May
Preceded bySuella Braverman
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Member of Parliament
for Spelthorne
Incumbent
Assumed office
6 May 2010
Preceded byDavid Wilshire
Majority18,393 (37.2%)
Personal details
Born
Akwasi Addo Alfred Kwarteng

(1975-05-26)26 May 1975(age 47)
Waltham Forest, London, England
NationalityBritish
Political partyConservative
Spouse(s)
Harriet Edwards
(m. 2019)
Children1
EducationEton College
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Harvard University
Websitekwasi4spelthorne.org.uk