Kemi Badenoch

Olukemi Olufunto Badenoch has been the British Conservative politician Member of Parliament (MP) for Saffron Walden since the 2017 general election. She was born in Wimbledon, London to parents of Nigerian origin. Her childhood was spent in Lagos, Nigeria and the United States. She moved to the United Kingdom at the age of 16. After studying Computer Systems Engineering at the University of Sussex, she worked as a software engineer at Logica. Badenoch went on to work at RBS as a systems analyst before working as an associate director at Coutts and later as a director at The Spectator magazine.