Unmesh Desai

Unmesh Desai
Unmesh in 2017
Member of the London Assembly
for City and East
Assumed office
6 May 2016
Preceded byJohn Biggs
Majority78,307
Councillor on London Borough of Newham for East Ham Central (2002-2018)
In office
1998–2018
Personal details
NationalityBritish
Political partyLabour
ProfessionPolitician

Unmesh Desai is a British politician. A member of the Labour Party, he has represented City and East in the London Assembly since 2016. He served as a councillor on the London Borough of Newham from 1998 until 2018, representing East Ham Central from 2002 onwards. Desai has been an anti-racist activist since the 1970s, organising marches and demonstrations in response to a wave of racist murders, and helping to found the Newham Youth Movement to confront the rise in racial violence and injustice.