Kemi Badenoch

Olukemi "Kemi" Olufonta Badenoch (née Adegoke) is a systems analyst and Conservative Party politician.

Born in Wimbledon, she grew up there and in Nigeria and the United States. She returned to the UK aged 16 and now lives in Herne Hill. She received a degree in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Sussex in 2003 and a degree in law from the Birkbeck, University of London in 2009. She became a systems analyst for the RBS Group. In September 2012 she married Hamish Badenoch, a Conservative councillor representing Herne Hill Ward on Merton London Borough Council.

At the 2010 general election she was Conservative candidate at Dulwich and West Norwood, a sfae Labour Party seat. At the 2012 London Assembly election she was included on the Conservative list for London-wide "top-up" seats. Although the Conservative vote was not high enough for her win a seat on that occasion, she joined the Assembly in September 2015 when Victoria Borwick resigned her seat following election to the House of Commons. She was top of the Conservative list at the 2016 assembly election and easily won a London-wide seat.