Dominic Raab is Member of Parliament for Esher & Walton, having won the seat at the 2010 General Election with 58% of the vote. Prior to becoming an MP he worked as Chief of Staff to Dominic Grieve QC MP, the Shadow Justice Secretary.

After studying law at Oxford and international law at Cambridge, where he was awarded the Clive-Parry Prize, Dominic trained and worked as an international lawyer at Linklaters. He was seconded to Liberty and advised on human rights test cases in the UK and at the European Court of Human Rights. In 2000, Dominic joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) as a legal adviser. In 2003 he was posted to The Hague to head up a new international law department at the British Embassy. Dominic left the FCO in 2006, following his appointment as Chief of Staff to the former Shadow Home Secretary, David Davis. For several years he advised respective Shadow Home and Justice Secretaries on crime, policing, immigration, counter-terrorism, constitutional reform and human rights.

Dominic's first book, The Assault on Liberty, a short polemic about the need for a new British Bill of Rights, was published to considerable acclaim by Fourth Estate. He lives with his wife in Surrey.