Richard Graham MP
Chair, WFD Board of Governors
Richard Graham is the MP for Gloucester and the Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to the ASEAN Economic Community, Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia. Richard Graham is a member of the Conservative Party. He has been the Chair of WFD since 2018.
He chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Groups for China and Marine Energy. He served on the Select Committee for Exiting the EU and as 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 firsthand. Richard speaks eight languages, played squash for Indonesia and the Philippines and chairs a charity.