| The Right Honourable The Lord Feldman of Elstree |
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|---|---|
| Chairman of the Conservative Party | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 11 May 2010 Serving with The Baroness Warsi |
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| Leader | David Cameron |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 February 1966 London |
| Spouse(s) | Gabrielle Gourgey |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Religion | Judaism |
Andrew Simon Feldman, Baron Feldman of Elstree (born 25 February 1966)[1] is a British Conservative politician and is currently Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party. Feldman was appointed to the House of Lords in 2010 having previously served on the Board of the Conservative Party and worked on David Cameron's leadership campaign.
Feldman was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School Elstree, and then Brasenose College, Oxford he was awarded a first-class degree in Jurisprudence. While at Oxford, he played for the Brasenose College Tennis team, where he met David Cameron[2]
He went on to the Inns of Court School of Law.
Feldman is Jewish[3] born in London to a Jewish family, he the son of Malcolm and Marcia Feldman. He married Gabrielle Gourgey in 1999 and he has two sons one daughter.
Feldman worked as a management consultant at Bain and Co before being called to the bar in 1991 and working as a commercial barrister at 1 Essex Court until 1995. Subsequently he served as Chief Executive (formerly Managing Director) or Jayroma (London) Ltd.
In 2008 he was appointed to the position of Chief Executive of the Conservative Party, and on 11 May 2010 he was made Co-Chairman alongside Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi.[4][5]
On 17 December 2010 Feldman was created a life peer as Baron Feldman of Elstree, of Elstree in the County of Hertfordshire, and he was introduced in the House of Lords, where he sits as a Conservative, on 20 December 2010.[6]