Former Chief of Staff to Deputy Prime Minister
HM Government
Jonny Oates has been a member of the House of Lords since October 2015 and is co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group Africa. His key areas of focus are international development and climate change. Jonny Oates is Chief Executive of United Against Malnutrition and Hunger, a not-for-profit organisation which seeks to raise the profile of global malnutrition and hunger with UK audiences and drive action to end it. During the Coalition Government (2010-2015), he was Chief of Staff to the Deputy Prime Minister, and Deputy Director of Communications in 10 Downing Street. From 1999-2001 he worked in the South African Parliament and in the late 1980s taught in a rural secondary school in Zimbabwe. His memoir, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, was published in October 2020.