The Right Honourable Sir Vince Cable is the former Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills, serving throughout the five years of the Coalition government. He is the former Leader of the Liberal Democrats and former MP for Twickenham.

Now, he is a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and a Distinguished Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute. Cable is the chair of two ‘green energy’ companies, and the author of many books – most recently Money and Power, How to be a Politician and The Chinese Conundrum.
Before becoming an MP, he was an economist working on development and trade issues in East Africa, India and Latin America, and was also Chief Economist at Shell International.

He is a graduate of Cambridge (Natural Science and Economics; 1962), Fitzwilliam College and holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Glasgow. At Cambridge, he served as President of the Union (1965) and is currently an Honorary Fellow at Fitzwilliam College.