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Key facts
- Vice president
- Vacant
- Preceded by
- Michael Sata
- Succeeded by
- Edgar Lungu
- President
- Michael Sata
- Constituency
- Lusaka Central
- Born
- ( 1944-06-01 ) 1 June 1944 (age 82) , Livingstone , Batoka Province, Northern Rhodesia
- Party
- UPND (since 2021)
- Other political affiliations
- Patriotic Front (2001–2016) MMD (1990–1996)
- Spouse
- Charlotte Harland ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1994 )
- Alma mater
- University of Cambridge University of Sussex University of Oxford
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Guy
- Family name
- Scott
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Zambia
- Place of birth
- Livingstone
- Spouse
- Charlotte Scott
- Occupation
- minister
- Political party
- Movement for Multi-Party Democracy
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Guy Scott.png
- Number of children
- 4
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- date of birth
- 1944-06-01
- Commons category
- Guy Scott
- name in native language
- Guy Lindsay Scott
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- Guy Scott
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Encyclopedic overview
Guy Lindsay Scott (born 1 June 1944) is a Zambian politician, who served as acting president of Zambia from 2014 to 2015, and was the 12th vice president from 2011 to 2014. Scott became acting president upon Michael Sata's death in office on 28 October 2014. This made him the first head of state of European descent in mainland Africa since F. W. de Klerk in 1989.
Early life and education
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Guy Scott” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.