Miatta Fahnbulleh (politician)

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Miatta Nema Fahnbulleh (born 29 September 1979) is a British-Liberian politician and economist who has served as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero since July 2026. As a member of the Labour and Co-operative Party, she was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Peckham in the 2024 general election. She is considered to belong to the soft left of the Labour Party. Fahnbulleh previously served as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government from 2025 to 2026. In her tenure as Energy Secretary, she has approved licenses for drilling gas at Jackdaw gas field. Early life and education Fahnbulleh was born on 29 September 1979 in Liberia. She is a daughter of Henry Boimah Fahnbulleh, a former Foreign Minister of Liberia; her mother is from Sierra Leone. She was named after her aunt, the singer Miatta Fahnbulleh. She has a brother, Gamal. At the onset of the First Liberian Civil War in 1986 the family fled to England, where they applied for asylum. Fahnbulleh attended Beechwood Sacred Heart School, an independent school in Tunbridge Wells.

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