Dominic Raab

Biography

Dominic Raab was elected as Conservative MP for Esher and Walton on May 6th 2010 with a majority of 18,593.

Born and raised in Bucks, Dom went to Dr Challoners Grammar School in Amersham.

He studied law at Oxford and for a Masters at Cambridge, winning the Clive Parry Prize for International Law.

Dom started his career as an international lawyer at Linklaters, a law firm in the City, working on project finance, international litigation and competition law.

He also spent time on secondments at Liberty (the human rights NGO) and in Brussels advising on EU and WTO law.

In 2000, Dom joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. He advised on a wide range of briefs, including UK investor protection, maritime issues, counter-proliferation and counter-terrorism, the UK overseas territories and the international law of outer space.

In 2003, he was posted to The Hague to head up a new team, focused on bringing war criminals - including Slobodan Milosevic, Radovan Karadzic and Charles Taylor - to justice. On return to London, he advised on the Arab-Israeli conflict, EU law and Gibraltar.

Dom left the FCO in 2006, and worked for three years as Chief of Staff to respective Shadow Home and Justice Secretaries, advising in the House of Commons on crime, policing, immigration, counter-terrorism, human rights and constitutional reform.

On 21 November 2009, in an open primary, Dom was selected to represent the Conservatives in Esher and Walton.

In January 2009, Dom published his first book, The Assault on Liberty - What Went Wrong with Rights.

Constituency

Esher and Walton

Constituency Address

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Constituency Tel

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Date of Birth

25/02/1974

Email

dominic.raab.mp@parliament.uk

Party

Conservative

Personal Website

www.dominicraab.com

Westminster Address

Westminster Tel

020 7219 7069