Blake is the Conservative MP for Mid Bedfordshire. He was elected at the 2024 General Election on Thursday 4th July.

He is also a Central Bedfordshire Councillor, representing the villages of Gravenhurst and Shillington in Mid Beds. Blake has also served on the Bedfordshire Police and Crime Panel and Shillington Parish Council. He is Chair of the Shillington and Stondon Federation of Schools.

Before winning Mid Bedfordshire back from Labour and entering Parliament, Grant worked in The City, where he advised on and implemented wholesale capital markets regulation; Grant also held the role of head of UK Compliance for NASDAQ and has led international teams, served as company director for several companies – in both the UK and NL – and has chaired various risk committees and governance fora.

With a background in science, data science, and 12 years as an officer in the Royal Navy, Stefan’s perspective on risk is that we don’t need a facelift, but a complete re-imagining of what risk is for, how it’s done, the tools we use, and who’s ‘doing’ it. ‘Decision-support’ is probably a better description of where Stefan’s tried (sometimes successfully) to take his risk efforts- in aerospace, energy, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, luxury fashion and now retail at The Cooperative Group.

Somewhat ‘Marmite’, Stefan talks passionately (excessively) about value creation and value protection; the role risk has in those conversations; building new allieships with teams who really help; how ‘it’s not enough to be right’ (risk communication and reporting), and data strategies to support better decision-making, more quickly. The last ten years have been characterised by risk transformations, including risk framework design and implementation, risk technology and reporting, and risk remediation strategies.