Derek George Henry Laud was born on 9 August 1964 and is a British banker, author, broadcaster and visiting professor.
37 Facts About Derek Laud
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Derek Laud is the chairman of the Foundation Board of Lucy Cavendish College at the University of Cambridge, and Chairs the North American Committee.
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Derek Laud is a visiting research fellow at Oxford University and pro chancellor at London South Bank University and visiting professor in the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences.
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Derek Laud currently sits on the board of the Overseas Territories, chaired by Lord Northbrook, and is executive director.
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Derek Laud is co-founder and executive director of the New City Initiative, a think tank for the finance sector.
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Derek Laud is a partner, partnership secretary, director of the advisory board, and director of global corporate affairs at wealth management company Stanhope Capital LLP.
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Derek Laud was the first black member of the Conservative Monday Club and was the first black master of foxhounds in the United Kingdom.
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Derek Laud was a contestant on the 2005 series of the British reality television show Big Brother.
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Derek Laud was born on 9 August 1964 in Chelsea, London.
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Derek Laud was educated at Oxford University and played tennis at the annual Oxford v Cambridge annual tournament.
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Derek Laud holds various degrees, including in History and later studied and conducted research in the Divinity Faculty at Cambridge University.
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Derek Laud was the first special adviser appointed to the House of Lords Rural Economy Group, where members included the Duke of Westminster, the Earl of Radnor, and Lord Vincent.
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Derek Laud was briefly a member of the Conservative Monday Club.
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Derek Laud considered himself on the liberal wing of the club, and resigned following disagreements about apartheid South Africa.
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Derek Laud later wrote a paper on how to apply cultural sanctions on the regime and was a vocal critic of the British government and its apparent lack of interest in dismantling apartheid.
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Derek Laud subsequently became a researcher and special adviser, working for Conservative Members of Parliament and government ministers in the mid to late 1980s.
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Derek Laud worked as an advisor to Sir Gordon Downey, the former auditor general, parliamentary commissioner for standards, and chairman of the Personal Investment Authority.
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Derek Laud was private secretary to Lord Rees, chief secretary to the treasury and minister for trade.
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Derek Laud acted as a researcher for Sir Spencer Perceval, the solicitor-general.
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Derek Laud was a campaign aide for then Prime Minister John Major in 1990 and the 1992 general election campaign.
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The Daily Telegraph reported that Derek Laud had withdrawn his candidacy after being convicted of drink driving in the United States.
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Three people in a car struck by Derek Laud suffered minor physical injuries.
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In May 2019 Derek Laud stood for the Liberal Democrats in Witney for election to West Oxfordshire District Council, as a protest against the Windrush scandal.
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Derek Laud headed the financial regulatory arm of the business.
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Derek Laud recommended the recruitment of business partner and Conservative MP Michael Colvin as an adviser.
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Derek Laud sat on the advisory board of Sadlers Wells, chaired by Ian Hay Davison, the CEO of Lloyd's of London.
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In 1992, Derek Laud co-founded the lobbying company Ludgate Derek Laud with Michael Colvin.
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Derek Laud is a partner, partnership secretary, director of the advisory board, and director of corporate affairs at wealth management company Stanhope Capital LLP.
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Derek Laud is co-founder and the executive director of New City Initiative, a think tank concerned with the independent banking sector.
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Derek Laud is a banker in the wealth management sector and holds various other directorships.
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In 2015 Derek Laud published The Problem With Immigrants through political publishing house Biteback, and he is a contributing writer to the Financial Times, The Independent, and The Daily Maverick.
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Derek Laud has extensive tennis knowledge, and has been a regular writer at the Wimbledon Championships since 2010.
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In 2005, Derek Laud was a contestant on the sixth series of the British reality television series Big Brother, in which a number of contestants live in an isolated house trying to avoid being evicted by the public.
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Derek Laud was the tenth person to be evicted from the Big Brother House after losing in a head-to-head with Eugene Sully.
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Derek Laud appeared on the BBC television discussion programme Question Time in November 2005.
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Derek Laud is selective about the TV shows he takes part in, describing most of them as a 'degrading shouting matches with little or no intellectual credibility'.
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An enthusiastic fox hunter, Derek Laud was made Master of Foxhounds for the New Forest Hunt in 1999, becoming the first black master of foxhounds in the United Kingdom.