Joey Jagan
# Joey Jagan

Cheddi "Joey" Jagan Jr. is a dentist and a politician in Guyana.

## Early life and family

Jagan is the son of two past Guyanese Presidents, Cheddi Jagan and Janet Jagan. His father was a Hindu Indo-Guyanese whose parents came from India to work on the plantations of Guyana. His mother was an American Ashkenazi Jew from Chicago who was of Hungarian and Romanian Jewish descent. He has a sister, Nadira Jagan-Brancier.

## Political activity

In politics, he is the co-founder of the Unity Party of Guyana, a pro-capitalist party seeking to bring more foreign investment to Guyana (which made him an opposite to his parents, who were socialists).

In 2006, Jagan, joined with Peter Ramsaroop, Paul Hardy and Rupert Roopnarine to form the Guyana Third Force. In 2011, Jagan returned to the party of his father, the People's Progressive Party (PPP), having previously been a leading critic of it, along with Ramsaroop, the leader of Vision Guyana (a political/social organization in Guyana).

## Personal life

Jagan's son is Cheddi B. Jagan II, was previously also a member of the PPP/C.

