Niamh Cooper
The Right Honourable Niamh Cooper MP | |
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| Secretary of State for Technology, Science & Innovation | |
| Assumed office 24 June 2019 | |
| Prime Minister | Clas Markussen |
| Preceded by | Olivier Gervais |
| Leader of the Opposition | |
| In office 10 October 2018 – 20 May 2019 | |
| Prime Minister | Michel Fallow |
| Deputy | Karl Simoneau |
| Preceded by | Michel Fallow |
| Succeeded by | Clas Markussen |
| Deputy Prime Minister of Ordennya | |
| In office 1 December 2016 – 17 August 2018 | |
| Prime Minister | Anneli Lindstrom (2016 - 2018) Ken Svensson |
| Preceded by | Rune Nyström |
| Succeeded by | Maria Picard |
| Secretary of State for Finance | |
| In office 10 May 2018 – 17 August 2018 | |
| Prime Minister | Ken Svensson |
| Preceded by | Ken Svensson |
| Succeeded by | Euclid Artois |
| Home Secretary | |
| In office 7 May 2015 – 10 May 2018 | |
| Prime Minister | Anneli Linstrom |
| Preceded by | Michael Fallow |
| Succeeded by | Jennifre Alexandre |
| Leader of the Green Party | |
| In office 1 December 2016 – 20 May 2019 | |
| Deputy | Clas Markussen |
| Preceded by | Rune Nyström |
| Succeeded by | Clas Markussen |
| Deputy Leader of the Green Party | |
| In office 19 November 2010 – 1 December 2016 Serving with Albért H. Montpélier | |
| Leader | Rune Nyström |
| Preceded by | Jane Jakobsson |
| Succeeded by | Clas Markussen |
| Member of Parliament for Västdal At-large (1 of 21 List MPs for Västdal) | |
| Assumed office 6 May 2005 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Niamh Katrin Cooper 1 February 1977 Loweport, Arthurista |
| Nationality | Ordennyan |
| Political party | Green |
| Alma mater | University of North Point (BA) University of Osea (MA) University of Vinterviken (Ph.D) |
| Profession | Scientist |
Niamh Cooper (born 1 February 1977) is an Arthuristan-born Ordennyan politician and scientist, who served as Home Secretary from 2015 to 2018, Deputy Prime Minister of Ordennya from 2016 to 2018, Secretary of State for Finance in 2018, and as Leader of the Green Party between 2016 and 2019.
Born in Loweport, Cooper graduated from the University of North Point and the University of Vastdal before receiving a PhD from the University of Vinterviken in 2001. She joined the Green Party in 1991, at the age of 14. Following her graduation from the University of Vinterviken, she took up a research position at the University, specialising in Environmental Studies, a position she held from 2001 until 2005, when she was first elected to Parliament.
She is known as a campaigner and writer on green economics, localisation, alternatives to globalisation, trade justice, animal welfare and food. In her time as a politician and activist, she has worked with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and think-tanks, including Compass, New Left, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and Oxfam.
Early Life and education
Cooper was born in Loweport to middle-class parents. His father, John, was from X, and her mother Saoirse, is X. She is one of three children.
When she was 3, her family moved to Oured, Ordennya, where her father set up a solar panel business.
Cooper was educated at Axlarhagi District School, a state-comprehensive in the Oured borough of Axlarhagi. She then went to the University of North Point, earning a first-class BA degree in her joint honours course of Environmental Science and Economics, graduating in 1998. While at university, Cooper went on many trips to Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp and Molesworth peace camp when involved with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). Cooper was an activist in CND and was involved in the Snowball Campaign against foreign military bases in the Ordennya which involved the cutting of fences with the expectation of being arrested.
Cooper won a scholarship at the University of Osea, in November City, studying an MA in Environmental Science between 1998 and 1999, before attaining a Ph.D from the University of Vinterviken in 2000 with a thesis entitled Environmental Science and future of Socialist Economics.
Life and career
Early political career
After being "utterly inspired" by Rune Nyström's book Seeing Green, Cooper joined the Green Party in 1991, at the age of 14. She recalled in 2007: "I thought, right! I'm going there now" to the Green's main office on Stockholm High Street, near where she lived in Oured. "I'm just going to dedicate the rest of my life to this party".
Alongside her research post at Vinterviken, she was active in the Green Party, campaigning for the Green candidate in the seat of Vinterviken at the 2000 general election, who gained the seat from the Tories. She was later elected to the Green Party's National Executive, where she earned a reputation among the Eco-Socialist wing of the Green Party, and as a Party Moderniser.
Green Party MP
Cooper was awarded a place on the Green Party's list for the Electoral Region of Västdal at the 2005 election. She was the first of the 10 MPs elected on the city-wide list, receiving more votes than any other candidate. She entered Parliament as one of the youngest MPs, at the age of 28 Identified by leader Rune Nyström as a 'rising star' in the Green Party, she was awarded a place on the Green Party frontbench as the Green Party's Spokesperson on Technology, Science, and Innovation. Following the 2010 general election, in which she retained her place at the top of Västdal's list, she decided to stand for the vacated position of Female Co-Deputy Leader of the Green Party, following the resignation of Lilly Carson. While placing second on the first preference vote of Green Party members, with 32% to Valeria Harper's 36%, she won 57% of the Two-Candidate-Preferred vote and was thereby elected Co-Deputy Leader of the Green Party. Cooper was additionally promoted on the Green Frontbench to the position of Home Office spokesperson. She worked with the Shadow Home Secretary, Sam Löfgren, to bring about a series of amendments to the Conservative government's proposed Investigatory Powers Act. The Act was later withdrawn in favour of one that protected civil liberties rather than hindered them. Following the 2015 election, in which the Coalition of Socialist's & Democrats formed a coalition with the Green Party, Cooper was made Home Secretary in the Coalition Cabinet.
Home Secretary
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Leader of the Green Party and Deputy Prime Minister of Ordennya
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