Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP Keynote Speaker

Sajid Javid was Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in the UK from June 2021 to July 2022. His resignation from government triggered a leadership crisis for Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Sajid has previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer; Home Secretary; Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government; Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills; Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport; Financial Secretary; and Economic Secretary. He was first elected Conservative MP for Bromsgrove in 2010.

Before being elected as an MP, Sajid worked in business and finance. Aged 25, he became a Vice President at Chase Manhattan Bank in New York. He later moved to Deutsche Bank in London, and then Singapore, to help build its business in emerging market countries. Sajid left Deutsche Bank as a senior Managing Director in the summer of 2009 for public service.

In 2020-21, Sajid was also a Senior Fellow at Harvard University; a Senior Advisor to JPMorgan; and on the advisory board of C3.ai Inc.