- Experienced change manager with 17 years of operational management in the public and private sector.- National and regional profile as the former Member of Parliament for South Cambridgeshire.- Experienced in Government affairs and the ways of working in Whitehall and Parliament.- Highly adaptable and at ease in small and large business, government and the third sector.- Inspiring leader with track record of building motivated teams and successful partnerships.- Experience of negotiating and influencing at every level from trade unions to executive boards to Ministers.- Passionate about improving the life chances of the disadvantaged and driving societal change.- Widely regarded as being “apolitical” - developed excellent relationships with civil servants and elected representatives of all parties.- Deputy Chair of the DWP Select Committee - shaped enquiries and recommendations to Government.- Influenced the national debate on the funding and delivery of the welfare state. - The lead campaigner on the Government benches, responsible for significant funding and structural improvements to Universal Credit.- Visited refugee camps in Calais and Lesvos - instrumental in the Government agreeing to take in more child refugees displaced by the war in Syria.- Chair of “Unite to Remain” - brought together the Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru and Green Party to form a “Remain Alliance” in 60 seats for the 2019 General Election – such collaboration last occurred in 1918.- The first MP to speak about their own abortion in the House of Commons which helped bring about the legalisation of abortion in Northern Ireland.- Led the parliamentary campaign to exempt non-EU NHS doctors and nurses from the Tier 2 Visa cap.- Mediated relentlessly between the Secretary of State, Vertex, the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, Health Select Committee and families until a successful price resolution was found for the transformative drug, Orkambi.