He chairs the All Party Parliamentary Groups for China, Indonesia and Marine Energy and Tidal Lagoons. He is a member of the Select Committee for Exiting the EU and a director of the Great Britain China Centre. Richard was previously an airline manager, a diplomat and an investment manager. He has worked in ten countries seeing apartheid, colonialism, communism, dictatorships and democracy at first hand. Richard speaks eight languages, played squash for Indonesia and the Philippines and chairs a charity.

She was also a member of the Treasury Select Committee until the last General Election. Prior to becoming an MP, she worked as Associate Director at the Young Foundation, the Home Office, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Institute for Public Policy and Research.

Patrick was SNP International Development Spokesperson and a member of the Procedure Committee in the 2015-2017 Parliament. Patrick was SNP National Secretary between 2012 and 2016 and, having worked in a range of policy and campaigning positions in the charity and public sectors, was Advocacy Manager for the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF) prior to his election in 2015.

She chaired the committee of broadcasters and politicians which negotiated the first Prime Ministerial election debates in the UK. Before working at the BBC, Sue was the senior foreign editor and deputy editor of Channel 4 News from 1988 to 1997. She chairs the board of the International News Safety Institute, a charity working for the safety of journalists around the world, and is vice-chair of the board of trustees of Reach South, a multi-academy Trust.

In 2010 she was elected as the first Chair of the Public Accounts Committee and sat on the Liaison Committee. Margaret’s interests include public finances, education, local government, housing, inner cities, democratic reform and London government.

He is a leading figure in the Northern Ireland peace process and was a senior member of the Unionist negotiating team in the constitutional talks that led to the ‘Good Friday’ Agreement in 1998. In 2003 he was re-elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly and, following the renewal of devolution, became Chairman of the Assembly and Executive Review Committee and Leader of the DUP delegation on the Northern Ireland Policing Board. He subsequently became a Minister in the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister with special responsibility for co-ordinating the business of the Northern Ireland Executive as well as relations with the European Union. At present he is Chief Whip of the DUP in the House of Commons.

For the past 15 years Thomas has worked on human rights and sustainable development issues, including as Deputy Director of the Copenhagen-based press freedom organisation, International Media Support (IMS) between 2003 and 2009, as well as previously for the European Commission, United Nation and OSCE.

Between 2003 and 2007 Simon worked at Reuters as Director of Corporate Communications and Marketing. He was Communications Secretary to HM The Queen at Buckingham Palace from 2000 to 2003 and earlier served as Director of Corporate Affairs at British Airways. From 1996-1997 Simon worked as a special adviser in the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit at 10 Downing Street. He is currently lead non-executive on the Board of the Department of International Trade, as well as Chairman of the Global Network of Director Institutes and adviser to a number of UK and international businesses and organisations. Simon was born in South Africa, and has worked as a journalist and consultant in New Zealand, Belgium and the UK.

Prior to joining the FRC, Mark had a twenty-year career in audit and was a Director at the UK National Audit Office, where his responsibilities most recently included the audit of HM Revenue and Customs, Energy and Nuclear and Defence. Prior to that he was a technical advisor to a number of EU capacity-building programmes in countries that joined the EU in 2004. He was also involved in the NAO’s audit of the United Nations. For five years, Mark was a member of the UK government’s counter-fraud taskforce. He led the NAO’s work on Financial Management, Counter Fraud and Money Laundering. He is a former Chairman of the International Colleges of Auditors of a number of European defence-related organisations.