Jo Johnson

Biography

Jo Johnson was elected as Conservative MP for Orpington on May 6th 2010 with a majority of 17,200.

Jo is a Contributing Editor of the Financial Times. His most recent role, prior to his election to Parliament in May 2010, was as Associate Editor of the Financial Times and Head of Lex, the newspaper's agenda-setting daily business and financial column.

Jo was in June elected by MPs to join the Public Accounts Committee, His principal areas of interest are the UK and global economy, business and finance.

His regional specialisms relate to India and France, the countries in which he lived and worked during successive four-year foreign postings for the Financial Times between 2001-2008. He is the Deputy-Chairman of the Indo-UK All Party Parliamentary Group and Deputy-Chairman of the Conservative Foreign and Commonwealth Council.

A graduate of Balliol College, Oxford, Jo received a first class degree in Modern History. He went on to postgraduate study and has degrees from two European universities, with a licence spéciale from the Institut d'Etudes Européennes in Brussels and an MBA from INSEAD.

Prior to becoming Head of Lex, Jo was the FT's South Asia bureau chief. Based in New Delhi between 2005 and 2008, he led the team of FT journalists that covered India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives. He was a Paris correspondent between 2001-2005.

Jo worked as a corporate financier in the investment banking division of Deutsche Bank before joining the Financial Times in 1997. He is co-author, with Martine Orange, of 'The Man who Tried to Buy the World: Jean-Marie Messier and the Rise and Fall of Vivendi Universal' (Penguin, 2003). A Londoner by birth, he is married with two children and is the brother of Boris Johnson, Mayor of London.

Constituency

Orpington

Constituency Address

Orpington Conservative Association, 6 Sevenoaks Road, Orpington, BR6 9JJ

Constituency Tel

01689 820347

Date of Birth

1971

Email

jo.johnson.mp@parliament.uk

Party

Conservative

Personal Website

www.jo-johnson.com

Westminster Address

Westminster Tel

0207 219 7125