Derek Laud

Derek George Henry Laud is a British lobbyist, businessman, political adviser, speechwriter, and journalist. He achieved celebrity status during his time as a contestant in the 2005 series of the British reality television show Big Brother. He is an occasional television and radio broadcaster and newspaper feature writer. Laud is cofounder and the executive director of the New City Initiative, a think tank and financial lobbying company. He is also a partner, partnership secretary, Director of the Advisory Board, and Director of Corporate Affairs at wealth management company Stanhope Capital LLP. Laud was the first black member of the Conservative Monday Club and first black master of foxhounds in the United Kingdom.

Derek Laud was born onAugust 1964 in Chelsea, London. His parents, Lyn and Samuel Laud, had emigrated to the United Kingdom from Jamaica in the late 1950s. Lauds mother was a nurse and his father left the family when Laud was eight.

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