Chris Bennetts

Chris Bennetts (b. 7 June 1987) is Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees of UK Youth Parliament and President of the Junior Common Room (JCR) of Pembroke College, Oxford.

Born in Truro, Cornwall, he moved to Halifax, West Yorkshire, in 1989. He attended New Road Primary School, Sowerby Bridge, and Ryburn Valley High School, Sowerby.

He became involved in the UK Youth Parliament in March 2004 when he sought and won election as MYP for Calderdale, securing the highest single number of votes for a candidate ever recorded in the borough. He stood down in November 2005 to take up a seat on the organisation's Board of Trustees, representing the MYPs of Yorkshire and the Humber region. He was elected to a second term on the Board in December 2007. He has been Co-Chair of the Board since January 2007.

At the end of his first year studying History and Politics at Pembroke College, Oxford, in June 2007, he was elected JCR President.
 
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