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The Rt Hon The Lord Andrew Tyrie

Andrew Tyrie

Full Title: The Rt Hon The Lord Andrew Tyrie

Category: Honorary Bencher

Bench Call Date: 12-07-2022

Bio:

Political roles

•             Chairman, Competition and Markets Authority (June 2018 – September 2020)

•             MP for Chichester (1997 – 2017)

•             Chairman, Treasury Select Committee (2010 – 2017)

•             Member, Public Accounts Commission (1997 – 2017; Chairman 2010 – 2011)

•             Chairman, Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards (2012 – 2013)

•             Chairman, Liaison Committee, the committee of select committee chairmen (2015 – 2017)

•             Special Adviser to Chancellors of the Exchequer: Nigel Lawson (1986 – 89) and John Major (1989 – 90)

•             Advice, in various capacities to several Prime Ministers

•             Founder and Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Rendition since 2005

Other roles:

•             Group Head Office, British Petroleum (1981- 1983)

•             Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford (1990 -1991)

•             Senior Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (1992 – 97)

•             Extensive public company board experience (2003 – 2010)

•             Privy Counsellor (since 2015)

•             Trustee, Pallant House Gallery (since 2017)

•             Member of the House of Lords (since 2018)

•             Visiting Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford (since 2020)

 

Education:

•             Woodrow Wilson Scholar, Washington DC

•             Wolfson College, Cambridge (M.Phil)

•             College of Europe, Bruges (Dip.Econ, Martin Madden Award)

•             Trinity College, Oxford (MA)

Awards

•             Spectator Backbencher of the Year (2000)

•             Spectator Backbencher of the Year (2009)

•             Spectator Select Committee Chairman of the Year (2012)

•             Political Studies Association Best use of Evidence (2013)

•             Prospect Magazine Publication of the Year (2013)

•             Honorary Fellow, Trinity College, Oxford (2015)

•             Chartered Institute of Taxation Tax personality of the year (2017)