The Rt Hon Dominic Raab MP
Biography
Dominic Raab is the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs and First Secretary of State. Dominic was first appointed Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and First Secretary of State on 24 July 2019. He was first elected Conservative MP for Esher and Walton in May 2010.
Political career
Dominic was Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union from July to November 2018.
He was previously Minister of State for Housing at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government from 9 January 2018 to 9 July 2018.
He was Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice from 12 June 2017 to 9 January 2018. Dominic served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Human Rights) at the Ministry of Justice from 2015 to 2016.
Education
Dominic went to Dr Challoner’s Grammar School, and studied law at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and for a Masters at Cambridge, winning the Clive Parry Prize for International Law.
Career before politics
Dominic started his career as a business lawyer at City law firm Linklaters, 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.
Dominic later worked at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office between 2000 and 2006 on a range of issues from investor protection to war crimes policy.
Personal life
Dominic is married with 2 children.
Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
The Foreign Secretary has overall responsibility for the work of the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, with a particular focus on:
- Strategy Directorate
- national security
- intelligence
- honours
- Europe
- all major spending decisions, and overall delivery and management of the 0.5% of Gross National Income spending for Official Development Assistance (ODA)
- working with and supporting international partners on the global response to COVID-19
Previous roles in government
Announcements
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- Foreign Secretary visits Singapore to strengthen bilateral climate and tech ties and announce science collaboration
- Closure of Apple Daily in Hong Kong: Foreign Secretary's statement
- Foreign Secretary visits Cambodia to strengthen bilateral ties and cooperation on global challenges
- Foreign Secretary visits Vietnam to strengthen bilateral ties and cooperation on trade and global challenges
- Foreign Secretary visits South East Asia to boost trade and defence links
- Foreign Secretary announces further sanctions on companies linked to Myanmar’s military regime
- UK imposes sanctions on Belarus following forced landing of Ryanair flight
- Foreign Secretary's statement on the death of former President of Zambia Kenneth Kaunda
- Foreign Secretary's call with Sergei Lavrov, 17 June 2021
- Foreign Secretary's meeting with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, 14 June 2021