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Liam Byrne
House of Commons
Member of Parliament
United Kingdom
Biography
The Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP is the Chair of the House of Commons Business and Trade Select Committee. He chaired the Global Parliamentary Network on the World Bank and International Monetary Fund 2019-2025. He served in the Cabinet in 10 Downing Street and Her Majesty’s Treasury. An Honorary Professor of Social Science at the University of Birmingham, Liam was the 2024-2025 Visiting Parliamentary Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford. He was a Fulbright scholar at the Harvard Business School and Gwilym Gibbon Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. He has represented Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North since 2004. Before entering politics, Liam first worked in strategic consulting and banking; in 2000, he founded a fast-growing venture-backed European technology company. He is the author of more than twenty publications on economics, foreign policy and public service reform. His book, The Inequality Of Wealth. Why It Matters And How To Fix It, was shortlisted for the Westminster Book Awards 2024.
His next book, Why Populists Are Winning. And How To Beat Them, comes out in March 2026.
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