David Lammy is Lord Chancellor, Secretary of State for Justice and Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He has served as a Labour MP since 2000 and previously held the position of Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs.

David was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1995, having studied law at SOAS and Harvard Law School, where he completed an LLM in 1997. He entered Parliament as MP for Tottenham in June 2000 at the age of 27, and served as a minister across several departments in the Labour government from 2001 to 2010, including as Culture Minister and Higher Education and Intellectual Property Minister. He was made a Privy Councillor in 2008.

After Labour's return to opposition, he served as Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and Shadow Foreign Secretary before being appointed Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs in July 2024, and appeared at the Lowy Institute in conversation with Executive Director Michael Fullilove during his tenure in that role, before moving to his current position in September 2025.

In 2016 to 2017, David led an independent review into the treatment and outcomes of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people in the criminal justice system. He is the author of Out of the Ashes: Britain After the Riots and Tribes: How Our Need to Belong Can Make or Break Society (2020). He sits on the Advisory Board of the European Council on Foreign Relations and holds professorships in practice at the London School of Economics and SOAS.