First Name: David
Title: Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Organization: Government of United Kingdom
Country: United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 15/07/1965
Spouses:
- He is married to violinist Louise Shackelton.
Education:
David Miliband was educated at Haverstock Comprehensive School in London.
He graduated with First Class Honours in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, and completed a Masters Degree in Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a Kennedy Scholar.
CV:
- 1989-1994 Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research (IPPR)
- 1992-1994 Secretary of the Commission on Social Justice.
- Head of Policy in the Office of the Leader of the Opposition
- Head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit
- 2001- Labour Member of Parliament for South Shields
- Jun 2002 Minister of State for Schools
- 15 Dec 2004 Appointed Minister for the Cabinet Office
- May 2005-May 2006 Minister of Communities and Local Government
- May 2006- June 2007 Secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs
- June 2007 - Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs under Gordon Brown's newly appointed premiership.