Andrea Leadsom

Andrea Jacqueline Leadsom (born 13 May 1963) is the Conservative Member of Parliament for South Northamptonshire. She has served as Minister of State for Energy at the Department of Energy and Climate Change since 11 May 2015, having previously held the post of Economic Secretary to the Treasury from April 2014.

Early life

Leadsom was born in Aylesbury and attended Tonbridge Girls' Grammar School before reading Political Science at the University of Warwick.

Career before Parliament

Leadsom worked in the financial sector for BZW, Barclays Bank - where she was Financial Institutions Director from 1993 to 1997 - and was Managing Director of De Putron Fund Management (DPFM) between 1997 and 1999. She was Senior Investment Officer at Invesco Perpetual from 1999 to 2009.

Political career

Prior to becoming an MP, Leadsom was a Councillor on South Oxfordshire District Council between 2003 and 2007. She contested Knowsley South constituency in the 2005 general election and was a member of the Conservative A-List. She was chosen to stand as the candidate in the newly created South Northamptonshire constituency in June 2006 and was elected at the 2010 general election with a majority of more than 20,000.