The Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP is a British Labour Party politician and the MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North. He is a member of His Majesty's Privy Council and the Chair of the House of Commons Business and Trade Select Committee. He chaired the Global Parliamentary Network on the World Bank and International Monetary Fund 2019-2025. He served in the Cabinet in 10 Downing Street and Her Majesty's Treasury. An Honorary Professor of Social Science at the University of Birmingham, Liam was the 2024-2025 Visiting Parliamentary Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford. He was a Fulbright scholar at the Harvard Business School and Gwilym Gibbon Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. Before entering politics, Liam first worked in strategic consulting and banking; in 2000, he founded a fast-growing venture-backed European technology company. He is the author of more than twenty publications on economics, foreign policy and public service reform. His book, THE INEQUALITY OF WEALTH: WHY IT MATTERS AND HOW TO FIX IT, was shortlisted for the Westminster Book Awards 2024.