Vidhya Alakeson
Vidhya Alakeson | |
|---|---|
| Deputy Chief of Staff at the Prime Minister's Office | |
| Assumed office 6 October 2024 Serving with Jill Cuthbertson | |
| Prime Minister | Keir Starmer |
| Personal details | |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford London School of Economics |
Vidhya Alakeson OBE (born 1976 or 1977)[1] is a British political aide. She has served as Deputy Chief of Staff in the Starmer ministry since 2024.[2]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Vidhya Alakeson is of British Indian background.[3] She holds a degree in modern languages from the University of Oxford and an MSc from the London School of Economics.[4] Alakeson joined the Resolution Foundation in January 2011 and left in January 2014 to become Chief Executive of Power to Change.[5] When Keir Starmer was Leader of the Opposition, she was political director.[6] In this role she worked as a special adviser.[7]
In the 2021 Birthday Honours, was awarded an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to social equality.[8] Until the 2024 United Kingdom general election, she was director of external relations for the Labour Party.[9][10] In October 2024, with the resignation of Sue Gray, she was promoted to deputy chief of staff by Morgan McSweeney.[11] She serves alongside Jill Cuthbertson.[12]
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