Shas Sheehan, Baroness Sheehan

Shaista Ahmad Sheehan, Baroness Sheehan is a British politician and life peer. She was nominated for a life peerage by Nick Clegg in August 2015.[1]

The Right Honourable

The Baroness Sheehan
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
2 October 2015
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born29 July 1959, Lahore
Political partyLiberal Democrats
Alma materImperial College London

Public service

Sheehan served as councillor for Kew from 2006 to 2010. She has also stood for Wimbledon at the 2010 and 2015 general election, finishing second and third, as well as the 2012 London Assembly election. She lives in Putney.

She was created a life peer taking the title Baroness Sheehan, of Wimbledon in the London Borough of Merton and of Tooting in the London Borough of Wandsworth on 2 October 2015.[2]

Between 2015 and 2019 she was a member of the House of Lords Select Committee on Energy and the Environment[3] and since July 2019 she has served as a member of the Science and Technology Committee (House of Lords).[4]

References
  1. "Dissolution Peerages 2015". Gov.uk. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  2. "No. 61373". The London Gazette. 6 October 2015. p. 18690.
  3. UK Parliament web-site,
  4. UK Parliament web-site,
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