Jesse Norman MP
Jesse Norman was elected as conservative MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire in the last general election. Among other things, he acts as county-wide co-coordinator of the Herefordshire Save Our Post Offices campaign, and set up SchoolsFirst.org.uk as a resource to help all those fighting school closures. He is a trustee of the Kindle Centre in South Wye in Hereford City, and of the Friends of St Mary's in Ross-on-Wye.
Jesse was educated at Oxford University, and has a Masters and PhD from University College London. He worked for and later ran an educational project giving away medical and other textbooks in Eastern Europe from 1988-1991. In 1991, he went to work at Barclays, mainly on Eastern Europe and other emerging markets. He left Barclays in 1997 in order to teach and do research in philosophy at UCL, and later at Birkbeck College.
Jesse has a 20-year track record as a political and voluntary campaigner. He has been school governor for an inner city comprehensive and has worked for nearly a decade with the Roundhouse, an arts centre and urban regeneration project which have so far helped over 12,000 disadvantaged young people. He has a reputation for getting things done, and has personally raised over £500,000 for charitable projects. Jesse has been a Conservative since university. He worked to help Oliver Letwin MP retain his seat in West Dorset during the 2005 General Election, and stood as a Conservative candidate in the 2006 Council elections. He has acted as a policy adviser to George Osborne MP, the Shadow Chancellor, and to the Shadow Work and Pensions team. Most recently, he took time out to advise Boris Johnson on his successful campaign to become Mayor of London.
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