Andrew Selous MP: The Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to South Africa

Andrew qualified as a chartered insurer and worked as a reinsurance underwriter before being elected to Parliament. His firm helped many of the world’s poorest communities recover from natural disasters. Andrew is Patron of SIFT a development charity working with people in extreme poverty in Nicaragua. 

Elected to Parliament for South West Bedfordshire in 2001, he served on the Work and Pensions select committee for the whole of that Parliament. In 2004 he was appointed an opposition whip; In 2006 he was appointed a shadow work and pensions minister; In 2010 he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to The Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions; In 2014 Andrew was appointed Minister for prisons and probation as Parliamentary under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice; In November 2016 he was elected to serve on the Health Select Committee. In August 2017 he was appointed as the Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to South Africa.