
James Cleverly parents-British politician and Army Reserve Officer, James Spencer Cleverly was born on September 4th, 1969 in Lewisham, London.
Cleverly received a private education at Lee, London’s Riverston School and Colfe’s School. Cleverly then underwent army training, although his time in the service was cut short in 1989 due to a leg injury.
From Ealing College of Higher Education (now University of West London), he went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in hospitality management studies in 1991.
After earning his degree, he worked at Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeverijen until joining Informa in 2002 as an international sales manager.
Cleverly started working as an advertising manager at Crimson Publishing two years later. In 2006, he was appointed manager of Caspian Publishing’s internet sales. He co-founded the web publishing business Point and Fire the year after that.
James Cleverly career
Cleverly has held the position of Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Affairs since 2022. He is a British politician and Army Reserve officer.
He is a Conservative Party member and has served as the Essex county’s Braintree MP since 2015.
He formerly held the positions of Secretary of State for Education from July to September 2022, Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party from 2019 to 2020 with Ben Elliot, and AM for Bexley and Bromley in the London Assembly (AM) from 2008 to 2016.
Cleverly argued for a “Brexit” vote in the 2016 EU membership referendum. He held the positions of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union from April to July 2019 and Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party from 2018 to 2019 during the second May cabinet.
Cleverly was elevated to the Cabinet as a Minister without Portfolio after Boris Johnson was named Prime Minister in July 2019.
From 2019 to 2020, he co-chaired the Conservative Party alongside Ben Elliot.
In the 2020 cabinet reshuffle, Cleverly was demoted from the Cabinet and became Minister of State for the Middle East and North Africa.
Prior to being named Minister of State for Europe and North America in February 2022, he served as Minister of State for the Middle East, North Africa, and North America from December 2021.
He replaced Michelle Donelan as secretary of state for education in July 2022. He became the first foreign secretary of African descent in British history when he was named foreign secretary by then-prime minister Liz Truss in September 2022.
In addition to receiving the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002, the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012, and the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal in 2022, Cleverly received the Efficiency Decoration (TD) in January 2012 for 12 years of commissioned service in the Territorial Army.
As part of his position as Minister without Portfolio and Conservative Party Chairman in the Johnson cabinet, he was sworn into the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 2019. He was given the honorary title “The Right Honourable” as a result.
Who are James Cleverly’s parents?
James Cleverly was born to Evelyn Suna Cleverly and James Philip Cleverly. His father is British and worked as a surveyor and his mother worked as a midwife and is from Sierra Leone.
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