Education
Graham was educated at the Downs School, Colwall, Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford where he was an exhibitioner in Modern History.
Graham was educated at the Downs School, Colwall, Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford where he was an exhibitioner in Modern History.
Graham was previously an airline manager, a diplomat and a pensions manager. He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1986, and was Second, later First, Secretary, in the British High Commission Nairobi and then British Trade Commissioner China, First Secretary British Embassy Beijing and Her Majesty Consul Macao (1989-1992). Graham joined Barings plc as its Chief Representative China in 1993, and became a director of Baring Asset Management in 1996.
Graham is a former director of Care for Children and a current trustee of the Gloucestershire Community Foundation.
Graham has lived and worked in ten countries, speaks eight languages, and according to his website is the only parliamentarian who speaks Cantonese and Mandarin. Graham is married with three children named Kitty, Bertie and Rowland.
In November 2012 Graham was appointed Prime Ministerial Trade Envoy to Indonesia. He is also Parliamentary Private Secretary to Rt Honorary Hugo Swire, Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Graham chairs the All Party Parliamentary Groups for Pensions, Regeneration Through Innovation, the Commonwealth, Indonesia, and China.
In June 2010, a parliamentary debate regarding apprenticeships and their importance to Gloucester, called by Graham himself, had to be cancelled after he turned up late. Graham later blamed a "printer error". In June 2013, Graham got himself into trouble with the International Coffee Organization for breaching the Data Protection Acting and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, then spamming people who had contacted him on parliamentary business.
He was reelected with an increased majority of 7,241 in the 2015 General Election. in July 2015, Graham had an award from the road safety charity Brake withdrawn after he received a six month driving ban for speeding.
Graham was elected Cotswold district councillor in 2003, becoming Chairman of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee in 2006.
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Following his successful election to the House of Commons in 2010, Graham was a member of the Select Committee for Work and Pensions May–November 2010, and served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Rt Honorary Lord Howell from November 2010 to September 2012. He apologised for parking his van in a disabled parking bay after a "37 hour day" following the election In July 2015 he was elected as a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee once again.