Ruth Maria Kelly ( May 9, 1968 , Limavadi , Londonderry , Northern Ireland ) is a British economist and Labor politician .
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| Predecessor | Douglas Alexander | ||||||
| Successor | Jeff hung | ||||||
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| Predecessor | David Miliband (Minister of State) | ||||||
| Successor | Hazel Bliers | ||||||
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| Predecessor | Tessa Joell | ||||||
| Successor | Harriet Garman (Women's and Equal Opportunity) | ||||||
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| Predecessor | Charles Clark | ||||||
| Successor | Alan Johnson | ||||||
| Birth | May 9, 1968 (51 years old) Limavadi , Londonderry , Northern Ireland | ||||||
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| The consignment | Labor Party | ||||||
| Education | Oxford University London School of Economics | ||||||
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Kelly comes from a Catholic Irish family. Her grandfather in the 1920s was a fighter in the Irish Republican Army . She spent her early childhood in Ireland . Member of the Catholic organization Opus Dei .
After moving to the UK, she studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford University ( 1989 ) and graduated from the London School of Economics ( 1992 ).
Her professional career began in the economics department of The Guardian . Since 1994, she was the deputy head of the Bank of England inflation forecasting team . In 1996, she got married, has four children.
In 1997 she was first elected to parliament . Treasury Economic Secretary ( 2001-2002 ), Treasury Finance Secretary ( 2002-2004 ), Minister of Education and Training ( 2004-2006 ), Minister of Women's Affairs ( 2006-2007 ), Minister of Communities and Local Government ( 2006 - 2007 ), Minister for Transport ( 2007 - 2008 ). Left parliament in 2010 .