Delivering on Net Zero and UK Energy

Date and Time

April 5, 2022
11:00AM - 12:00PM EDT

Location

Zoom

Join the HKS Mossavir-Rahmani Center for Business and Government for a presentation by Rt Hon Kwasi Kwarteng MP, UK Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

Join the HKS Mossavir-Rahmani Center for Business and Government for a presentation by Rt Hon Kwasi Kwarteng MP, UK Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

Kwasi Kwarteng was appointed Secretary of State at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on 8 January 2021. He was previously Minister of State at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Kwasi was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Exiting the European Union from 16 November 2018 to 24 July 2019. Kwasi read classics and history at Trinity College, Cambridge, and then attended Harvard University on a Kennedy Scholarship. He earned a PhD in economic history from the University of Cambridge in 2000. Before becoming a Member of Parliament, Kwasi worked as an analyst in financial services. Kwasi was elected the Conservative MP for Spelthorne in 2010. From 2010 until 2013 he was a member of the Transport Select Committee, and in 2013 he joined the Work and Pensions Select Committee where he was a member until 2015. In October 2016 Kwasi joined the Public Accounts Committee, where he was a member until May 2017.

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