Anthony Browne (politician)

Anthony Browne
Official portrait, 2019
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Decarbonisation and Technology
In office
13 November 2023 – 5 July 2024
Prime MinisterRishi Sunak
Preceded byJesse Norman
Member of Parliament
for South Cambridgeshire
In office
12 December 2019 – 30 May 2024
Preceded byHeidi Allen
Succeeded byPippa Heylings
Personal details
Born
Anthony Howe Browne

(1967-01-19) 19 January 1967 (age 57)
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Political partyConservative
EducationThe Perse School
Hills Road Sixth Form College
Alma materTrinity Hall, Cambridge
Websiteanthonybrowne.org

Anthony Howe Browne (born 19 January 1967) is a British politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Cambridgeshire from the 2019 general election until the dissolution of the 58th Parliament in May 2024. He was appointed the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State of Transport, responsible for aviation, decarbonisation and the future of transport in November 2023.[1] He is a member of the Conservative Party.[2][3]

Browne was previously a journalist at The Times, BBC and The Observer; an adviser to Boris Johnson when he was Mayor of London; chief executive of the British Bankers' Association and chairman of the UK Government's Regulatory Policy Committee.[4] He sat on the Boards of the International Banking Federation, the European Banking Federation and TheCityUK, and a range of financial technology companies.[5][6] As an MP, he served three years on the Treasury Select Committee and two years on the Public Accounts Commission as well as Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Environment. Browne was appointed as the Prime Minister’s first Anti-Fraud Champion.[7]

  1. ^ "Parliamentary Under Secretary of State - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Cambridge Independent was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Browne, Anthony Howe, (born 19 Jan. 1967), MP (C) South Cambridgeshire, since 2019". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u249852. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
  4. ^ "Anthony Browne appointed to the Regulatory Policy Committee". GOV.UK. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
  5. ^ "Anthony Browne joins Coconut board". specialistbanking.co.uk. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
  6. ^ "Board of Directors – TheCityUK". www.thecityuk.com. 26 September 2023.
  7. ^ "Govt launches anti-fraud strategy". www.ftadviser.com. Retrieved 9 June 2024.

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