# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/abena-oppong-asare
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:59:20.536Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/abena-oppong-asare"
name: "Abena Oppong-Asare"
slug: "abena-oppong-asare"
description: "Abena Oppong-Asare is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Erith and Thamesmead since 2019. In September 2025, Oppong-Asare was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Keir Starmer. She was previously a Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office from July 2024 to September 2025. In this capacity Oppong-Asare was the first woman of Ghanaian descent to hold Ministerial Office in the United Kingdom. Oppong-Asare and Bell Ribeiro-Addy, both elected in the 2019 general election, are the first female British Ghanaian MPs."
tagline: "British politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Official_portrait_of_Abena_Oppong-Asare_MP_crop_2%2C_2024.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1983-02-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.9965928449744462
  historical:           5.359618666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "abenaopp"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/abena.oppongasare.mp/"
    handle:    "abena.oppongasare.mp"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
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    handle:    "abena.oppongasare"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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sources:
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    title: "Abena Oppong-Asare"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "আবেনা ওপং-আসারে"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abena_Oppong-Asare"
    title: "Abena Oppong-Asare"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ابینا اوپونگ اسارے"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Oppong-Asare"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abena_Oppong-Asare"
    title: "Abena Oppong-Asare"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76364044"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump