Mark Ryan | |
Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
Office: | Minister for Fire and Emergency Services |
Term Start: | 12 November 2020 |
Term End: | 18 December 2023 |
Premier: | Annastacia Palaszczuk Steven Miles |
Predecessor: | Craig Crawford |
Successor: | Nikki Boyd (as Minister for Fire and Disaster Recovery) |
Term Start1: | 11 November 2016 |
Term End1: | 11 December 2017 |
Premier1: | Annastacia Palaszczuk |
Predecessor1: | Bill Byrne |
Successor1: | Craig Crawford |
Office2: | Minister for Police and Corrective Services |
Term Start2: | 11 November 2016 |
Term End2: | 18 December 2023 |
Premier2: | Annastacia Palaszczuk Steven Miles |
Predecessor2: | Bill Byrne |
Successor2: | Himself (as Minister for Police) Nikki Boyd (as Minister for Corrective Services) |
Office3: | Assistant Minister of State Assisting the Premier of Queensland |
Premier3: | Annastacia Palaszczuk |
Term Start3: | 7 December 2015 |
Term End3: | 11 November 2016 |
Predecessor3: | Stirling Hinchliffe |
Successor3: | Jennifer Howard |
Office4: | Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Morayfield |
Term Start4: | 31 January 2015 |
Predecessor4: | Darren Grimwade |
Term Start5: | 21 March 2009 |
Term End5: | 24 March 2012 |
Predecessor5: | New seat |
Successor5: | Darren Grimwade |
Birth Date: | 1982 12, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Nambour, Queensland, Australia |
Party: | Labor Party |
Spouse: | Holly Shine Ryan |
Children: | 3 |
Alma Mater: | University of Queensland |
Signature: | Mark Ryan signature 2020.svg |
Mark Thomas Ryan (born 29 December 1982) is an Australian Labor Party politician who has represented Morayfield in the Queensland Parliament since the 2015 election, having previously represented the seat from 2009 to 2012
Ryan was born in Nambour, Queensland, and attended St Eugene School and then St Joseph's College, Nudgee. He received a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland and became a solicitor. In 2009, he was selected as the Labor candidate for the new seat of Morayfield and was elected. He lost the seat at the 2012 Queensland state election,[1] but regained it at the 2015 election and has held it ever since.
In December 2015 a cabinet reshuffle elevated Ryan to the position of Assistant Minister for State Assisting the Premier in an extended cabinet.
In November 2016, a cabinet reshuffle saw Ryan promoted to senior cabinet as the Minister for Police, Fire and Emergency Services and the Minister for Correctional Services.[2]