Gareth Morgan (South African politician)

Gareth Morgan (born 22 March 1977) is a South African politician and a former member of parliament with the opposition Democratic Alliance.

He is a former Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, and previously worked as South Africa's Shadow Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs.

Morgan matriculated from Westville Boys' High School in 1994 and completed a B.Com and political science honours degree at the University of Natal.

[1] After a brief stint as a high school teacher, Morgan read for a PPE degree and an M.Sc in Environmental Change and Management at Oxford—on a Rhodes Scholarship.

[1] He served as Shadow Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs from 2009 to January 2013 [1] and was a whip of the National Assembly from June 2011 until his resignation.