Kamall started his career as a business systems analyst for NatWest Overseas Department (1989–91). He was a Management Fellow,University of Bath School of Management (1994–96),Management Research Fellow,Leeds University Business School (1996–97),Associate Director/Consultant,Omega Partners (1997–2001),and a Consultant at SSK Consulting (2001–05). He was elected a Visiting Fellow of Leeds University Business School in 2004 where he lectured MBA students on international business and strategy,and supervised doctoral students' research.
Before entering the European Parliament,Kamall worked as a consultant to companies on marketing,strategy and public affairs. In 2003,he started a diversity recruitment business. He is a co-founder of the Global Business Research Institute (GBRI),[9] an educational body conducting outreach to business executives,journalists and civil servants,promoting a greater understanding of globalisation and its consequences.
Political career
Kamall speaking in 2019
Kamall has been a member of the Conservatives since 1987 and has held various positions in the party since then:Chairman,Stockwell Ward,Vauxhall Conservative Association;Hon. Secretary,Bath Conservative Association CPC;Chairman,Eccleston Ward,and Chairman,Eccleston/Churchill CPC,Cities of London and Westminster Conservative Association;Executive Member,London Eastern Area Committee.
In May 2000,Kamall was a Conservative Candidate for the London Assembly. The following year,he was Conservative candidate for West Ham in the June 2001 General Election. He was placed fourth on the Conservative list in London for the 2004 European Parliament elections. The Conservatives won three seats and Kamall became a Member of the European Parliament in May 2005,after Theresa Villiers stepped down on being elected as an MP to the UK Parliament. In the European Parliament,he served on the Economic and Monetary Affairs,Legal Affairs and International Trade committees.
Kamall was placed on the "A-list" of Conservative parliamentary candidates ahead of the 2010 election[10] and was again returned to Brussels in 2014 representing London as an MEP.
In 2016,Kamall backed voting to leave the European Union in the run up to the Brexit referendum.[12]
In October 2018,during a debate in which Udo Bullmann,the German leader of the Socialists and Democrats Group linked the political right to extremism,Kamall responded by saying that Nazis were National Socialists who followed left wing policies. There was an angry reaction from the Left and he apologised for any offence caused. However,he was angered himself when Udo Bullmann,issued a press release which falsely accused Kamall of calling the S&D Nazis.[13][14][15]
In 1996,Kamall wrote a book on EU telecommunications policy,[21] and has written on multinational business and telecommunications policy for such books as Management in China:The Experience of Foreign Businesses;Trade and Investment in China:The European Experience;Political and Economic Relations Between Asia and Europe:New Challenges in Economics and Management,and in such journals as Management International Review and Transnational Corporations.
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