About the IAPP

Sir Chris Bryant was appointed minister of state at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport on 8 July 2024. He was elected as the member of Parliament for Rhondda and Ogmore (previously Rhondda) on 7 June 2001.

He studied English at Mansfield College, Oxford, as well as theology at ISEDET in Buenos Aires and Ripon College, Cuddeson, Oxford.

Bryant was chair of the House of Commons Committees of Standards and Privileges from 2020 to 2023 and a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee from 2017 to 2023. He was shadow culture secretary in 2015 and shadow leader of the House of Commons from 2015 to 2016. He was parliamentary under-secretary of state for Europe and Asia from 2009 to 2010. He was deputy leader of the House of Commons from 2008 to 2009. He was parliamentary private secretary to the deputy leader of the House of Commons in 2008.

From 1998 until his election to Parliament in 2001, Bryant was the head of European affairs for the BBC. He has published several books on British political and parliamentary history.