Faiza Shaheen
 Dr Faiza Shaheen        (political activist, economist) | |
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| Born | 1982 |
| Alma mater | St John's College (Oxford), University of Manchester |
Faiza Shaheen is a British economist and political activist.[1]
Early life and education
Faiza Shaheen was born in Leytonstone, in East London. Her father was a car mechanic from Fiji and her mother was a lab technician from Pakistan.
She attended Chingford Foundation School and St John's College, Oxford University, where she read philosophy, politics and economics. Shaheen also holds an MSc in Research Methods & Statistics and a PhD from the University of Manchester.
Career
Faiza Shaheen has been the head of inequality and sustainable development at Save the Children UK and a senior researcher on economic inequality at the New Economics Foundation (NEF). She was the director of a left-wing policy think tank, the Centre for Labour and Social Studies (CLASS).
Shaheen is a regular contributor to debates on television news programmes, including Newsnight and Channel 4 News, and has worked with Channel 4 and the BBC to develop documentaries on inequality.
Politics
Faiza Shaheen is a longtime Labour voter and was politicised from an early age. She joined the Labour Party when Jeremy Corbyn became leader in 2015.
In 2017, The Guardian identified her as a "rising star". In the same year, she was nominated for Asian Woman of the Year at the Asian Achievers Awards and included in the Top 100 Influencers on the Left list.
In July 2018, she was selected to be the prospective parliamentary candidate for the Labour Party for Chingford and Woodford Green; at the UK/General election/2019 she gained 22,219 votes, finishing a close second behind the Tory incumbent, Iain Duncan Smith on 23,481.[2]
After being challenged for the nomination by Bilal Mahmood, a Blairite candidate who stood in the 2015 and 2017 elections, the Chingford and Woodford Green CLP selected Faiza Shaheen to fight the seat again for the Labour Party at the next general election. On 23 July 2022, she tweeted:
"We won!"[3]
Personal life
Faiza Shaheen is married to the actor Akin Gazi.
References
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