Lord Chris Holmes of Richmond MBE

^{Chris has been a member of the House of Lords since 2013. His particular areas of interest are around talent and technology, inclusion and innovation. He helped set up the All Party groups on fintech, AI, blockchain and digital finance. He also wrote a report in 2017, Distributed Ledger Technology for Public Good and updated it in 2018. Chris is a member of the special Bill committee for the Electronic Trade Documents Bill and is also a member of the influential Science and Technology Select Committee. Outside Parliament, Chris is deputy chair of Channel 4 and also works with a number of scale ups in the fintech arena. Chris was director of paralympic integration for London 2012, responsible for leading the team that planned and delivered the 2012 Paralympic Games and also integrating the Olympic and Paralympic planning into a single organising committee for the first time ever.}