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Douglas Alexander

Politician

Douglas Alexander is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Douglas Alexander · Дуглас Александер · דאגלס אלכסנדר · داگلاس الکساندر · دوجلاس الكسندر · 4 more...				[sources]
Alias	Douglas Garven Alexander · Александер, Дуглас · Дуглас Александер · דאגלס אלכסנדר · داگلاس الکساندر · 5 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1967-10-26				[sources]
Place of birth	Glasgow				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United Kingdom				[sources]
Country	United Kingdom				[sources]
Citizenship	United Kingdom				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Douglas				[sources]
Last name	Alexander				[sources]
Political association	Labour Party · Scottish Labour Party				[sources]
Title	The Right Honourable				[sources]
Website	www.douglasalexander.labour.co.uk				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q259106				[sources]
Position	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (2003-2004) · House of Commons (member, 2005-2010) · House of Commons (member, 2010-2015) · Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom (2005-) · Minister for the Cabinet Office (2003-2004) · 15 more...				[sources]
Education	Park Mains High School · Pearson College UWC · University of Edinburgh · University of Edinburgh School of Law				[sources]
Religion	Church of Scotland				[sources]
Source link	www.cia.gov				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

British politician (born 1967)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the 55th Parliament of the United Kingdom	2010-05-06	2015-03-30

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Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Wendy Alexander Politician	sibling	-	-

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,728

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,022

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

US CIA World Leaders11,007

An index of most national-level cabinet members in world governments that is publicly maintained by the CIA.

United States · CIA

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,647

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata343,483

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,358

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: us-cia-united-kingdom-douglas-alexander-secretary-of-state-for-scotland · evpo-80e7df57-139f-4459-a90d-59361c30b4ff

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