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Faiza Shaheen (born 1982) is a British academic and economist in the field of economic inequality. In 2018, she was selected to be the prospective parliamentary candidate for Labour for Chingford and Woodford Green, coming a close second in the 2019 general election to the incumbent, Iain Duncan Smith. In 2023 her first book, Know Your Place, was published. Shaheen was again selected by her local party in 2022 to stand for Chingford and Woodford Green, but was deselected after the July 2024 election was announced in late May due to the nature of historical social media posts she had liked. Shaheen resigned from the Labour Party on 4 June 2024, and announced that she was standing as an independent candidate for the constituency the following day. Early life and education Shaheen was born in Whipps Cross University Hospital, Leytonstone, in East London and grew up in Chingford, also in East London. Her father was a car mechanic from Fiji and her mother was a laboratory technician from Karachi, Pakistan, where they met. She has a brother and a sister. She attended Chingford Church of England Primary School, Chingford Foundation School and Sir George Monoux College in Walthamstow. Her first job at the age of 16 was at Greggs the bakers in Chingford Mount. After reading philosophy, politics and economics at St John's College, Oxford University, Shaheen studied at the University of Manchester, being awarded an MSc in Research Methods & Statistics and a PhD. Her doctoral thesis (2008) was Identifying 'at-risk' neighbourhoods : Exploring the scope for an Index of Area Vulnerability. Career Shaheen first worked at the Centre for Urban Policy Studies, University of Manchester. In 2007, she joined the urban policy research charity, Centre for Cities. In 2009, she became senior researcher on economic inequality at the New Economics Foundation. In 2014, she was appointed Head of Inequality and Sustainable Development at the charity Save the Children UK. In 2016, Shaheen had a cameo role in the British anthology television series Black Mirror. From 2016 to 2020, she was the director of the Centre for Labour and Social Studies (CLASS), a policy think tank originating from the trade union movement. Between 2021 and 2023, Shaheen was the Inequality and Exclusion Program Director at the Center on International Cooperation, New York University. In this role, she led the team authoring From Rhetoric to Action:Delivering Equality and Inclusion, launched in September 2021 by seven Heads of State, comprising those from Spain, Sierra Leone, Sweden, Costa Rica, Ireland, New Zealand, and Senegal, as well as Nobel Prize laureate, Joseph Stiglitz and Oscar winner and SDG Advocate, Forest Whitaker, among others. She is a visiting professor in practice at the International Inequalities Institute of the London School of Economics, where she teaches the Masters course on inequality. Shaheen is a regular contributor to debates on television news programmes, including Newsnight and Channel 4 News, and has worked with Channel 4 and the BBC to develop documentaries on inequality. She also contributes to festival debates and discussions, such as the Glastonbury Festival and The World Transformed. In 2023, Shaheen's first book, Know Your Place, on social inequality in the UK, was published by Simon and Schuster. Shaheen wrote the book during evenings and weekends while working full-time at the LSE. Parliamentary candidacies Shaheen is a longtime Labour voter and says she has been politicised from an early age. She joined the Labour Party after Jeremy Corbyn became leader in 2015. In 2017, The Guardian identified her as a "rising star" and she was nominated for Woman of the Year at the Asian Achievers Awards and named one of the Top 100 Influencers on the Left by LBC broadcaster, Iain Dale. According to one newspaper, she has been compared to the American politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Shaheen was selected to be the prospective parliamentary candidate for the Labour Party for Chingford and Woodford Green in July 2018. She has stated that her motivation for standing was the stress her own and other families had suffered as a result of welfare reforms instituted by the constituency’s longstanding Conservative incumbent, Iain Duncan Smith, during his time as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. In the 2019 general election, Shaheen was endorsed by Alastair Campbell, Hugh Grant, Ayesha Hazarika, Ewan Pearson and David Schneider. She increased Labour’s vote share, contrary to the national trend, and garnered the party’s largest ever vote share in the constituency, coming second by just over one thousand votes. In July 2022, Shaheen was selected to contest the seat again for the Labour Party at the 2024 United Kingdom general election. On 29 May 2024, Shaheen announced on BBC Two's Newsnight that she would not be Labour's candidate in Chingford and Woodford Green after a decision that day by a panel of Labour's National Executive Committee. The decision came after she was questioned about posts that she had liked on Twitter since 2014 which were deemed potentially damaging to Labour's campaign, including two from Green Party politicians before she became a Labour Party member, one relating to Islamophobia in the Labour Party and some relating to Israel which it was suggested could be considered antisemitic. The following day, Labour appointed Shama Tatler as candidate. The Morning Star and The Jewish Chronicle noted that Tatler, a Brent councillor known as “Tower Block Tatler” from her work with private developers, was a member of the Jewish Labour Movement, which initiated the moves against Shaheen. The decision was criticised by Jon Stewart, whose video was embedded in one of the tweets, and others alleging a cull of left-wingers within the Labour Party under Keir Starmer. Shaheen announced she would challenge the decision. On 4 June 2024, Shaheen resigned from the Labour Party. On 5 June, she announced that she was standing as an independent candidate for the constituency. Subsequently, fifty members of the constituency Labour Party, including a councillor and seven senior local party officers, resigned in protest. According to a letter posted on Twitter, the departing members contend that Ms. Shaheen was deselected in a manner they describe as "appalling, anti-democratic and unfair, as “carried out in a manner contrary to natural justice or any proper due process… and based on spurious grounds” and the party's treatment of Shaheen as "inhumane and degrading". Shaheen's independent candidacy was endorsed by Ronnie O'Sullivan, the professional snooker player, who lives in the constituency. Political positions Shaheen supports investment in public services: in particular, the NHS, schools and the justice system. She supports electoral reform, an end to arms sales to countries involved in civilian killings and rapid action on the climate crisis. She has also urged the reform of p.... Discover the Shaheen popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Shaheen books.