Liam Byrne

The Rt. Hon. Liam Byrne MP chairs the House of Commons business and trade select committee and the Global Parliamentary Network on the World Bank & International Monetary Fund. 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 a Fulbright scholar at the Harvard Business School and Gwilym Gibbon Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. He has represented Birmingham Hodge Hill, the most income-deprived community in Britain, for the last 19 years and is the author of a major history of British capitalism Dragons: Ten Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain.

The Inequality of Wealth. Why it matters and how to fix by Liam Byrne, published January 2024 by Head of Zeus. www.inequalityofwealth.co.uk