Rt Hon. Sir Liam Fox qualified as a medical doctor from the University of Glasgow. He served as the Member of Parliament for North Somerset from 1992 to 2024. During his time in government he served as the Secretary of State for Defence between 2010 and 2011, and as the first Secretary of State for International Trade and the President of the Board of Trade between 2016 and 2019. He also served as a minister in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and as Chairman of the Conservative Party. In 2013 he published Rising Tides, a book analysing the challenges of the era of globalisation. He was the UK’s nominee to be the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation in 2020.In 2021 he was invited by the Ambassadors of UAE, Israel, Bahrain and Morocco to set up and chair the UK Abraham Accords group to promote and support the international peace agreement. In 2024 he published his second book The Coming Storm: how water will write the 21st century, examining its crucial role in security, climate and human health from his different professional experiences. He also chairs the international Abraham Accords Prosperity group.