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Katie Lam
British politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Katie Jane Lotte Lam (born August 1991)[1] is a British Conservative politician and former banker who has been Member of Parliament for Weald of Kent since 2024.[2] She is also a lyricist and scriptwriter.
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Early life
Lam was educated at her local comprehensive, Guildford County School, where she was head girl [citation needed]. Her paternal grandfather's family is of Dutch Jewish descent and her paternal grandmother's family were from Germany and included a left-wing senator representing Saxony. Her grandmother's family moved to England to escape political persecution. Most of her grandfather's family was killed in the Holocaust. Her father's parents met while delivering leaflets for the Labour Party in the 1940s.[3] Lam read classics at Trinity College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge she was elected president of the Cambridge Union and chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association.[4]
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Career
After graduation, she worked at Goldman Sachs for six years, rising to vice president. She then became a special adviser working across different departments for numerous ministers, including Boris Johnson, Suella Braverman and Alok Sharma.[5][3] In the 2024 Conservative Party leadership election, she supported Robert Jenrick.[3]
She has also worked for PR company Portland Communications as Chief Policy Adviser, and Chief of Staff at AI company Faculty. Lam is a governor at the Frank Barnes School for Deaf Children in King's Cross, and a former trustee at the Ivors Academy Trust, the charitable arm of professional songwriters' association The Ivors Academy.[6]
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Musical career
In collaboration with Alex Parker, Lam has co-written five musicals, including an adaptation of The Railway Children.[7]
Electoral history
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