Syed Kamall

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Syed Kamall (2015)

Syed Kamall (born February 15, 1967 in London ) is a British politician and was a member of the European Parliament from 2005 to 2019 . He is a member of the Conservative Party .

Life

Syed Kamall comes from a family of Indo-Guyanese origin. His father moved to London from Guyana in the 1950s . Kamall completed an electronics training course in Liverpool until 1988 . In 1989 he received a Masters in Science in Economics from the London School of Economics . He received the academic degree of a PhD in 2004 on the subject of "Organizational Change" at City University London .

He was a business systems analyst in the international relations department of NatWest Bank from 1989 to 1991 . From 1994 to 1996 he taught business administration at the University of Bath . He then got a one-year research assignment in business administration at the University of Leeds . From 1997 to 2001 he was Deputy Director of Omega Partners and then from 2001 to 2005 a consultant for SSK Consulting . From 2004 he also taught as a visiting professor at the University of Leeds.

After leaving the European Parliament, Kamall was appointed Professor of International Relations and Politics at St Mary's University, Twickenham in September 2019 .

Political career

Kamall in the European Parliament (2019)

From 1991 to 2004 he was chairman of the Vauxhall Conservative Association in Stockwell, London. He was chairman of the European Parliament's Friends of Sports Cross Party group .

Between 2009 and 2014, Kamall was elected as a Member of the European Union. He was a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. He was a deputy in the Committee on International Trade , in the Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union and in the Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean.

In October 2018, Kamall provoked an uproar in Strasbourg by comparing socialists and Nazis. Surprised by a remark about right-wing extremists during a debate on Brexit on October 24, Kamall described the socialists as similar to the Nazis. An intervention that led to uproar and violent reactions, including from Guy Verhofstadt and Vice-President of the Commission, Frans Timmermans , who described him as "idiotic". Udo Bullmann from the S&D Group, Germany, said: "Hundreds of thousands of Social Democrats, upright people have been victims of the Nazi terror. Because they have not given in, because they have defended democracy and human dignity. Your comment is an indescribable lack of respect, Mr . Kamall. Absolutely unworthy of this European Parliament ". Kamall was eventually forced to apologize.

In the European elections in May 2019, Kamall lost his seat in the European Parliament.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Entry on Syed Kamall in the Members' database of the European Parliament
  2. ↑ St Mary's University website
  3. ↑ Biography ( memento from April 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on syedkamall.com.
  4. ^ Website of the European Parliament
  5. ↑ [1]
personal data
SURNAME Kamall, Syed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH London