Jeremy Lefroy is a British Conservative Party Member of Parliament. Since his election in 2010, he serves in the International Development Selected committee and also served in the Health and Social Care Bill Committee. After ten years in Tanzania working in the coffee industry, he returned to the UK and worked assisting smallholder farmers in East Africa. He founded Equity for Africa, a charitable trust thatseeks to alleviate poverty by providing equity-type funding for small businesses in Africa. He also helped the establishment of Stafford Works, a charity which promotes apprenticeships, job creation and entrepreneurship in his constituency. He is a qualified chartered accountant by profession, with a background in manufacturing, international trade and agriculture. He was councillor and cabinet member for resources in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Jeremy Lefroy also served in the Independent Monitoring Board of a Young Offenders Institution and as a school governer. He was educated in King’s College, Cambridge.