Biography

• Agra Born Alok Sharma lok was appointed in 2016 as the Prime Minister’s Infrastructure Envoy to India.
• Alok Sharma, elected MP in May 2010
  

Alok has served as a member of the Commons Treasury select committee, a member of the Commons Science and Technology select committee, a Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Treasury and from 2012 to 2015 as a Conservative Party Vice Chairman.

In July, 2016, he has been appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office with responsibility for Asia, the Pacific and Prime Minister’s Infrastructure Envoy to India. He also served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP, the former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster who had overall responsibility for the Cabinet Office.

Alok qualified as a chartered accountant with Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte, and then worked for 16 years within banking, first with the Japanese firm Nikko Securities and then Enskilda Securities (the investment banking arm of SE Banken), where he held senior roles based out of London, Stockholm and Frankfurt, including serving as a member of the bank’s Corporate Finance Global Management Committee.

Alok Sharma, elected MP in May 2010

• Agra-born NRI, Alok Sharma, a qualified chartered accountant and a Conservative Party member at Reading West in Berkshire
• Alok is currently a governor of a local primary school in Reading
• Prem Sharma, Alok's father, is a doctor  and Ancestral Sharmas home in Kothi Meena Bazar area, Agra
• Alok studied at Normal School and then at Welham in Dehradun before leaving with his parents for London in 1972.
• Alok's wife is from Sweden and he has two daughters, according to his relatives in Agra.
• Born Sep 7, 1967.

• Agra Born Alok Sharma lok was appointed in 2016 as the Prime Minister’s Infrastructure Envoy to India.
• Alok Sharma, elected MP in May 2010