Kemi Badenoch MP is a British Conservative member serving as Secretary of State for Business and Trade, President of the Board of Trade, and Minister for Women and Equalities since 2022. She previously held a series of junior ministerial positions under Boris Johnson from 2019 to 2022. In 2017 she was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Saffron Walden in Essex, having previously served as a Member of the London Assembly.
Badenoch was born in the UK to Nigerian parents and spent some of her childhood living in Lagos, Nigeria and in the United States, where her mother lectured as a Professor of Physiology. She studied Computer Systems Engineering at the University of Sussex, completing a Master of Engineering (MEng) degree in 2003.
Badenoch initially worked within the IT sector, first as a software engineer. While working, she read Law part-time at Birkbeck, University of London, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws degree (LLB) in 2009.
Kemi Badenoch contested for the leadership of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister position in 2022.
Image credit: By Department for International Trade and The Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch MPSimon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street – https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/trade-secretary-speech-at-the-atlantic-future-forum-in-new-york image, OGL 3, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=123617878
