Gina Miller Biography
Gina Nadira Miller is a Guyanese-British philanthropist, business owner, and activist. She initiated the 2016 R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union court case against the British government over its authority to implement Brexit without approval from Parliament. She responsible capitalist who has campaigned in the areas of investment and pension reform, political transparency and scrutiny, modern-day slavery, social justice, and the charity sector.
Gina Miller Age
Miller is 58 years old as of 2023. She was born (Gina Nadira Singh) on 19 April 1965, in British Guiana. Miller celebrates her birthday on the 19th of April every year.
Gina Miller Height
Miller stands at an approximate height of 5 feet 6 inches.
Gina Miller Family
Miller was born and raised in British Guiana. She was brought up by her mother Savitri Singh, and her father Doodnauth Singh, who later became the Attorney General of Guyana. She is of Indo-Guyanese descent and grew up in newly independent Guyana. At the age of 10, she was sent to England by her parents to be educated at an independent boarding school, Moira House in Eastbourne. When she turned 14 years old, Guyana introduced strict currency controls that prevented their parents from continuing to send funds for Gina and her brother, so she took a summer job as a chambermaid in an Eastbourne hotel.
Gina Miller Husband
Miller is married to Alan Miller. The two tied the knot in 2007. Miller is a proud mother of three children. She was previously married to Jon Maguire from 2000 to 2002. Before that, she was married to Adrian Beal. Miller and Beal tied the knot in 1985 and after a period of time, they divorced.
Gina Miller Net Worth
Miller has an estimated net worth ranging between $1 Million – $5 Million which she has earned from her successful career as a philanthropist, business owner, and activist.
Gina Miller Education
She studied law at the Polytechnic of East London (now the University of East London). Unfortunately, she left without completing her finals because her parents wanted her in Guyana. Miller says she was brutally attacked while at law school and that some of her attackers were fellow students. The attack caused her to give up her degree course. She stated “Well, I was attacked because I was not behaving like I was supposed to be behaving… I was being too western.” The attackers were Asian, and they had mistaken her for being Indian.
She later joined the University of East London where she obtained a degree in marketing and an MSc in human resource management. In 2017, she received an honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of East London, 30 years after when she had attended as a student.
Gina Miller Entrepreneur
She owned a property photographic laboratory in 1987, before becoming a marketing and event manager at BMW Fleet Division in 1990. Miller started a specialist financial services marketing agency in 1992 and launched the Senate investment conference program in 1996. She became a marketing consultant in 2006.
In February 2009, Miller co-founded the investment firm SCM Private (now SCM Direct) with her husband Alan Miller. She has been a leading campaigner against hidden charges in pensions and investment and what she has described as “flagrant mis-selling within the asset management market”. She set up Miller Philanthropy (rebranded to the True and Fair Foundation) in 2009 (which closed in 2019), and established MoneyShe.com in 2014, as a female-focused investment brand.
Gina Miller True and Fair Foundation
In 2009, she set up the True and Fair Foundation. The Foundation was a registered charity under English law and was removed from the register in July 2019. It aimed at increasing philanthropy and the common good in an era of growing inequality, social fragmentation, and small state funding.
It also aimed to encourage those who have been successful to give back to the communities that afforded them their success. The Foundation again lessens the burden of giving for donors and philanthropists who wish to give smarter and in an efficient and transparent manner but may be time-poor.
Gina Miller Philanthropy
Through her philanthropic work, she supports dynamic small community charities and works with donors on smarter giving so that their donations achieve maximum impact. She has also been a strident voice calling for reform as well as calling out poor practices, lack of transparency, lack of safeguarding, and financial scrutiny in the Third Sector.
Gina Miller Political activity
Miller led the People’s March for a People’s Vote on the final Brexit deal alongside Liberal Democrat and Green party leaders Vince Cable and Caroline Lucas and Conservative Anna Soubry in June 2018. She addressed the Liberal Democrat party conference in September 2018. Miller told the delegates she was not a member of any party and she was speaking to them as a “friend” who felt a bond over so many issues. “I am not addressing you as your leader in waiting.”
Gina Miller True and Fair Party
Miller announced the foundation of a new political party called the True and Fair Party in September 2021. The party was formally launched on 13 January 2022. On 1 February 2022, it was announced that the Renew Party had merged its operations into the True and Fair Party.
Gina Miller Books
The following are some of the books Miller has published. They include Rise: Life Lessons in Speaking Out, Standing Tall & Leading the Way, My Life As A Horse.
Gina Miller Awards and Honors
As a result of her campaigning and business achievements, Gina was awarded the following accolades:
- Campaigner of the Year 2018 – Harpers Bazaar
- Online Wealth Manager of the Year 2018 – Global Business Insight Awards
- Business Women of the Year 2018 – CEO Today
- Win trade Excellence Award 2018
- Honorary Doctorate of Law; October 2017
- The Most Influential Black Person in the UK 2017
- Campaigner of the Year 2017, Political Studies Association
- 50 Most Influential in Europe, PAM awards 2017
- Transparency Campaigner 2016, Transparency Taskforce
- Inspirational Women Innovator 2016, Brummel
- UK Game Changer of the Year (Fund Management) 2015, ACQS
- City Champion – for Moral leadership 2014, Spears