Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP is Chair of the House of Commons Business & Trade Committee, and the Global Parliamentary Network on the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
A former Cabinet minister, Liam did some of the toughest jobs in government in the Home Office, No 10 Downing Street and Her Majesty's Treasury, where he was Chief Secretary. An Honorary Professor of Social Science at the University of Birmingham, Liam was a Fulbright Scholar at the Harvard Business School and Gwilym Gibbon Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford.
He was elected to Parliament in 2004, giving up a successful business career as a technology entrepreneur to serve one of the poorest communities in Britain, his constituency of Hodge Hill in East Birmingham where five generations of his family lived and worked.