Stephen Benn, 3rd Viscount Stansgate
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| Director of Parliamentary Affairs for the Royal Society of Biology | |
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| Born | Stephen Michael Wedgwood Benn 21 August 1951 |
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| Alma mater | Keele University |
Stephen Michael Wedgwood Benn, 3rd Viscount Stansgate (born 21 August 1951) is Director of Parliamentary Affairs for the Royal Society of Biology.[1]
His father, Tony Benn, and younger brother, Hilary Benn, have both been senior Labour politicians. His mother was Caroline Benn and his sister is Melissa Benn, a feminist writer. He is a graduate of Keele University. He was an elected Member of the Inner London Education Authority from 1986 to 1990.
He has a daughter, Emily, born in 1989, and a son, Hon. Daniel John Wedgwood Benn, born in 1991. Emily, an investment banker by occupation, pursued a political career, and sat on the Croydon London Borough Council as a Labour member until she resigned in 2016.
In 2011, he was appointed director of parliamentary affairs for the Society of Biology after spending two decades in a similar role for the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Benn succeeded to the title of Viscount Stansgate on the death of his father in March 2014.
References
- ^ "Society of Biology". https://www.rsb.org.uk/about-us/our-team.
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