Jesse Norman was educated at Oxford and received his PhD at University College London. He has run an educational project in Communist Eastern Europe, been a director at BZW, and taught philosophy at UCL and Birkbeck College. His books and pamphlets include ‘After Euclid’, ‘Compassionate Conservatism’ and ‘The Big Society’, and he writes regularly in the national press. In 2010 Norman was elected as the MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire, and as a member of the Treasury Select Committee. He is a main board director of The Roundhouse in London, and a ‘keen and incompetent’ trumpet player.
