Rt Hon Ruth Kelly MP, Secretary of State for Transport
Biography
Ruth Kelly has been appointed as the new Secretary of State for Transport.
Previously she was Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and Minister for Women from May 2006. Prior to this she was Secretary of State for Education and Skills from December 2004.
Ruth served as Minister for the Cabinet Office from September 2004 after three years at HM Treasury where she was, successively, Economic Secretary and from May 2002, Financial Secretary.
She was educated at Queen's College Oxford and the LSE where she gained an MSc in Economics. She worked for the Guardian as an economics writer in the early 1990s before joining the Bank of England.
Ruth was elected to Parliament as Member for Bolton West in the 1997 General Election and the following year became Parliamentary Private Secretary to Nick Brown at the Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
Ruth Kelly is married with a son and three daughters.
E-mail: ruth.kelly@dft.gsi.gov.uk
