Kemi Badenoch

The Right Honourable Kemi Badenoch MP
Official portrait, 2022
Secretary of State for Business and Trade
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 February 2023
Prime Minister	Rishi Sunak
Preceded by	Grant Shapps[a]
President of the Board of Trade
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 September 2022
Prime Minister	Liz Truss Rishi Sunak
Preceded by	Anne-Marie Trevelyan
Minister for Women and Equalities
Incumbent
Assumed office 25 October 2022
Prime Minister	Rishi Sunak
Preceded by	Nadhim Zahawi[b]
Secretary of State for International Trade
In office 6 September 2022 – 7 February 2023
Prime Minister	Liz Truss Rishi Sunak
Preceded by	Anne-Marie Trevelyan
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Junior ministerial offices Minister of State for Local Government, Faith and Communities In office 16 September 2021 – 6 July 2022 Prime Minister Boris Johnson Preceded by Luke Hall Succeeded by Paul Scully Minister of State for Equalities[c] In office 14 February 2020 – 6 July 2022 Prime Minister Boris Johnson Preceded by The Baroness Williams of Trafford Succeeded by Amanda Solloway Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury In office 13 February 2020 – 16 September 2021 Prime Minister Boris Johnson Preceded by Simon Clarke Succeeded by Helen Whately Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families In office 27 July 2019 – 13 February 2020[d] Prime Minister Boris Johnson Preceded by Nadhim Zahawi Succeeded by Vicky Ford
Member of Parliament for Saffron Walden
Incumbent
Assumed office 8 June 2017
Preceded by	Alan Haselhurst
Majority	27,594 (43.7%)
Member of the London Assembly as the 4th Additional Member
In office 5 May 2016 – 8 June 2017
Preceded by	Gareth Bacon
Succeeded by	Susan Hall
Member of the London Assembly as the 9th Additional Member
In office 16 September 2015 – 5 May 2016
Preceded by	Victoria Borwick
Succeeded by	Shaun Bailey
Personal details
Born	Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke (1980-01-02) 2 January 1980 (age 44) Wimbledon, London, England
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Hamish Badenoch ​ (m. 2012)​
Children	3
Alma mater	University of Sussex (MEng) Birkbeck, University of London (LLB)
Occupation	Politician software engineer consultant banker
Signature
Website	kemibadenoch.org.uk
Kemi Badenoch's voice Badenoch speaks in a debate on socialism versus capitalism Recorded 28 May 2018

Olukemi Olufunto "Kemi" Badenoch (/ˈbeɪdnɒk/ BAYD-nok;^[1] née Adegoke, 2 January 1980)^[2] is a British politician serving as Secretary of State for Business and Trade since 2023 and President of the Board of Trade and Minister for Women and Equalities since 2022.^[3][4] A member of the Conservative Party, she has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Saffron Walden in Essex since 2017.

In 2012, Badenoch unsuccessfully contested a seat on the London Assembly, but was appointed an Assembly Member after Victoria Borwick resigned upon becoming an MP in 2015. A supporter of Brexit in the 2016 referendum, Badenoch was elected to the House of Commons in 2017. After Boris Johnson became Prime Minister in July 2019, Badenoch was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families. In the February 2020 reshuffle, she was appointed Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Equalities. In September 2021, she was promoted to Minister of State for Equalities and appointed Minister of State for Local Government, Faith and Communities.

In July 2022, Badenoch resigned from Government and stood unsuccessfully to replace Johnson in the July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election.^[5][6] Following Liz Truss becoming Prime Minister in September 2022, Badenoch was appointed as Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade and was sworn in to the Privy Council; she was reappointed to the Cabinet by Truss's successor, Rishi Sunak, the following month.

In a February 2023 Cabinet reshuffle, Badenoch assumed the position of Secretary of State for Business and Trade following the merging of the Department for International Trade with elements of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Badenoch retained the responsibilities of Equalities Minister.^[4]

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