Alok Sharma is a British politician serving as President for COP26 and a Minister for the Cabinet Office since 2021. Resigning his previous position as Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy to lead COP26, he retains full Cabinet status. Sharma has been the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Reading West since 2010.
Sharma served in Theresa May’s government as Minister of State for Housing from 2017 to 2018 and as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Employment from 2018 to 2019. In 2019, he was appointed to Boris Johnson’s cabinet as Secretary of State for International Development.
Dr. Prem Sharma: Who is Alok Sharma’s father?
Sharma was born in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India, and moved to Read with his parents when he was five years old. He had a Hindu upbringing. His father, Prem, was involved in Conservative politics in Reading and became chairman of the Berkshire area of Conservatives before helping to establish the Conservative Parliamentary Friends of India.
