25 Facts About Brooks Newmark

Brooks Phillip Victor Newmark was born on 8 May 1958 and is a former British Conservative politician, who served as a Member of Parliament and minister.

Brooks Newmark was elected as the Member of Parliament for Braintree in the 2005 general election and stood down at the 2015 general election.

Brooks Newmark was born in Westport, Connecticut, in the United States, on 8 May 1958 to Howard Brooks Newmark and Gilda Gourlay.

Brooks Newmark moved to the UK aged nine and attended Caldicott Preparatory School and Bedford School.

Brooks Newmark graduated from Harvard College, receiving a BA in History in 1980.

Brooks Newmark was a Research Graduate in Politics at Worcester College, Oxford, from 1980 to 1982, and has an MBA in Finance from Harvard Business School and an MSc in Education from Oxford University.

Brooks Newmark was Vice President in the International Division of Shearson Lehman Brothers from 1984 to 1987, a Managing Director of Brooks Newmark Brothers Ltd, a corporate finance advisory company, from 1988 to 1993, and then a Director of Stellican Ltd from 1993 to 1998.

From 1998 to 2005, Brooks Newmark was a Senior Partner at Apollo Management LP, an international private equity firm.

Brooks Newmark has been a director of Connaught Brown since 2015 and a director of the Catholic Herald since 2016 among other appointments.

Brooks Newmark contested Newcastle Central in 1997, and Braintree in 2001.

Brooks Newmark was elected as the Member of Parliament for Braintree in the 2005 general election over the Labour incumbent, Alan Hurst, and was re-elected in 2010 with a greater majority.

In opposition, Brooks Newmark served as the Foreign Affairs Whip and Treasury Whip.

Brooks Newmark was re-elected onto the Treasury Select Committee in 2012 after 5 years in the Whips' Office.

In mid July 2014, Brooks Newmark was appointed as the Minister for Civil Society, in the Cabinet Office.

Brooks Newmark co-founded the Million Jobs Campaign to address the need for more to be done regarding youth unemployment.

Brooks Newmark resigned as Minister for Civil Society on 27 September 2014, a day before the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham.

Brooks Newmark was a research associate at the University of Oxford in the Department of Politics and International Relations.

Brooks Newmark is guest lecturing at the Said Business School on private equity, and travels to universities outside the UK to lecture in either politics or finance.

Brooks Newmark is the author of various articles on the war in Syria, Brexit, US politics and homelessness.

Brooks Newmark has authored a report on homelessness at the Centre for Social Justice think tank.

Brooks Newmark is involved with charity work in Rwanda and helps homeless charities.

In 2009 Brooks Newmark co-founded the charity A Partner in Education, which helps Rwandan teachers to give the nation's children an improved education.

Brooks Newmark is involved in various charities including PARC, a respite centre based in Braintree for children with severe disabilities, and Farleigh Hospice and has volunteered for the Braintree Salvation Army and the homeless charity Crisis in London.

Brooks Newmark scaled up his work moving closer to the war frontline to evacuate women and children, as well as the elderly.

Brooks Newmark is married to Lucy Keegan, daughter of the military historian Sir John Keegan, and has four sons and one daughter, actress Lily Newmark.