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- Archive 2019
- 2015 Elections: 11 new BME MP’s make history
- 70th Anniversary of the Partition of India
- Black Church Manifesto Questionnaire
- Brett Bailey: Exhibit B
- Briefing Paper: Ethnic Minorities in Politics and Public Life
- Civil Rights Leader Ratna Lachman dies
- ELLE Magazine: Young, Gifted, and Black
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- Gary Younge Book Sale
- George Osborne's budget increases racial disadvantage
- Goldsmiths Students' Union External Trustee
- International Commissioners condemn the appalling murder of Tyre Nichols
- Iqbal Wahhab OBE empowers Togo prisoners
- Job Vacancy: Head of Campaigns and Communications
- Media and Public Relations Officer for Jean Lambert MEP (full-time)
- Number 10 statement - race disparity unit
- Pathway to Success 2022
- Please donate £10 or more
- Rashan Charles had no Illegal Drugs
- Serena Williams: Black women should demand equal pay
- Thank you for your donation
- The Colour of Power 2021
- The Power of Poetry
- The UK election voter registration countdown begins now
- Volunteering roles at Community Alliance Lewisham (CAL)
Shriti Vadera
Shriti was born in 1962 in Uganda. She is a UK government minister, former advisor and former UBS Warburg investment banker.
From April 1999 to June 2007 she was an adviser to Gordon Brown during his time as Chancellor of the Exchequer and a member of the Treasury's Council of Economic Advisers. Brown appointed her as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for International Development on 29 June 2007.
For over 14 years Vadera was employed at investment bank UBS. She worked in the firm's banking, project finance, sovereign advisory and privatisation teams and, shortly before her move to the Treasury, was responsible for developing its business with the South African Government and the public sector.
Following his appointment as Prime Minister, Gordon Brown appointed her as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for International Development. As a Minister, she had to go into Parliament, and, lacking a seat in the House of Commons, she was created a life peer on 11 July 2007 as Baroness Vadera. She took her seat in the House of Lords that same day and After six months at DFID she was moved to the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.