Kwasi Kwarteng is a politician from the United Kingdom. He is a Conservative Party member and has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Spelthorne in northern Surrey since 2010. Since 2021, he has served as Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy. Following the retirement of Suella Braverman on November 16, 2018, he was named Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union.
What ethnicity is Kwasi Kwarteng?
Kwasi’s ethnicity is African.
Kwasi Kwarteng born Akwasi Addo Alfred Kwarteng. He was born on May 26, 1975, in Waltham Forest, London, England and he is currently 47 years old.
Kwasi attended Colet Court, an independent preparatory school in London, where he won the Harrow History Prize in 1988. He then went to Eton College, where he was a King’s Scholar and was awarded the prestigious Newcastle Scholarship prize. He read classics and history at Trinity College, Cambridge, achieving a first in both subjects and twice winning the Browne Medal.
Is Kwasi Kwarteng a Ghanaian?
Kwasi is a Ghanaian. His parents emigrated from Ghana as students in the 1960s.
Kwasi was a member of the team which won the University Challenge in 1995 (in the first series after the programme was revived by the BBC in 1994). Whilst at Cambridge, he was a member of the University Pitt Club and has since returned to visit. He attended Harvard University on a Kennedy Scholarship and then earned a PhD in economic history from the University of Cambridge in 2000.
Source: Ghanafuo.com
