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==Early life==
==Early life==
Gillian Keegan grew up in Knowsley, Merseyside and went to a Comprehensive school - St Augustine of Canterbury (renamed St Thomas Beckett) in Huyton. She has a bachelor's degree in Business Studies from [[Liverpool John Moores University]] and a Master of Science in Strategy and Leadership (Sloan Fellowship) from [[London Business School]] in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|author=Women2Win |url=https://www.women2win.com/person/gillian-keegan |title=Gillian Keegan | website = women2win.com |publisher=Women2Win |date= |accessdate=9 June 2017}}</ref>
Keegan grew up in Knowsley, Merseyside and went to a Comprehensive school - St Augustine of Canterbury (renamed St Thomas Beckett) in Huyton. She has a bachelor's degree in Business Studies from [[Liverpool John Moores University]] and a Master of Science in Strategy and Leadership (Sloan Fellowship) from [[London Business School]] in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|author=Women2Win |url=https://www.women2win.com/person/gillian-keegan |title=Gillian Keegan | website = women2win.com |publisher=Women2Win |date= |accessdate=9 June 2017}}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==

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Gillian Keegan
Member of Parliament
for Chichester
Assumed office
8 June 2017
Preceded byAndrew Tyrie
Majority22,621 (37.8 %)
Personal details
Political partyConservative
Alma materLiverpool John Moores University
London Business School
Websitewww.gilliankeegan.com

Gillian Keegan is a British politician, the Conservative MP for Chichester since the 2017 general election.[1] She is Chichester's first female MP.[2]

Early life

Keegan grew up in Knowsley, Merseyside and went to a Comprehensive school - St Augustine of Canterbury (renamed St Thomas Beckett) in Huyton. She has a bachelor's degree in Business Studies from Liverpool John Moores University and a Master of Science in Strategy and Leadership (Sloan Fellowship) from London Business School in 2011.[3]

Career

Keegan started her career aged 16 as an apprentice at a car factory in Kirkby, Liverpool and went on to have a successful business career working at Delco Electronics (part of the General Motors Group), NatWest Bank (Senior Buyer), Subsidiary of MasterCard International (Commercial Director), Amadeus IT Group (Group Vice President of Multinational Customer Group based in Madrid) and Travelport (Chief Marketing Officer) over 27 years.

She contested the constituency of St Helens South and Whiston in the 2015 General Election.[1] In 2015 she became Director of Women2Win - an organisation founded by Theresa May and Baroness Anne Jenkin in 2005 to help elect more women Conservative MPs to Parliament.

Keegan represents Rogate on Chichester District Council, where she was cabinet member for commercial services 2015-17. She was first elected a councillor in 2014[2] She was also a member of the Board of Governors of Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust from 2015–17.

Keegan was selected as the Conservative Parliamentary candidate for the Chichester constituency in May 2017, and was elected to the House of Commons in the General Election held on 8 June 2017.

Personal life

Keegan lives in Petworth with her husband Michael.[2] Her father-in-law Denis Keegan was the former Conservative MP for Nottingham South.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Keegan selected in Chichester". conservativehome.com. Conservative Home. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
  2. ^ a b c Hello (3 May 2017). "Conservative's bid to be Chichester's first female MP". Chichester Observer. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
  3. ^ Women2Win. "Gillian Keegan". women2win.com. Women2Win. Retrieved 9 June 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ http://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2017-06-29/debates/D199DEF4-2B92-4D43-BF7D-01F7D98591A3/EconomyAndJobs#contribution-57694C04-A14E-4BA9-8D33-4579D21E2631

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Chichester
2017–present
Incumbent