Dominic Raab

Dominic Raab is currently Chief of Staff to David Davis, the former Shadow Home Secretary. He studied 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, a law firm in the City. He was seconded to Liberty, as the Human Rights Act entered into force, 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 David Davis. While running the Office of the Shadow Home Secretary he advised on all areas of Home Affairs policy, including crime, policing, immigration, counter-terrorism and human rights.

Dominic is married and lives in London. His first book is THE ASSAULT ON LIBERTY, a short polemic about the need for a new British Bill of Rights, which will be published in 2009 by Fourth Estate.