Andrew Tyrie

The Right Honourable
The Lord Tyrie
PC
The Right Honourable The Lord Tyrie PC
	Official portrait, 2020
Chair of the Competition and Markets Authority
	In office; 20 June 2018 – 1 September 2020
Prime Minister	Theresa May; Boris Johnson;
Preceded by	The Lord Currie
Succeeded by	Jonathan Scott (acting)
Chair of the Liaison Committee
	In office; 14 October 2015 – 3 May 2017
Preceded by	Sir Alan Beith
Succeeded by	Sarah Wollaston
Chair of the Treasury Select Committee
	In office; 10 June 2010 – 3 May 2017
Preceded by	John McFall
Succeeded by	Nicky Morgan
Leader
Shadow portfolios
Shadow Paymaster General
	In office; 15 March 2004 – 6 May 2005
Leader	Michael Howard
Preceded by	Mark Prisk
Succeeded by	Mark Francois
Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury
	In office; 11 November 2003 – 15 March 2004
Leader	Michael Howard
Preceded by	Mark Prisk
Succeeded by	Mark Hoban
Preceded by
Parliamentary offices
Member of the House of Lords
	Lord Temporal
	Life peerage ; 12 June 2018
Member of Parliament ; for Chichester
	In office; 1 May 1997 – 3 May 2017
Preceded by	Anthony Nelson
Succeeded by	Gillian Keegan
Personal details
Born	15 January 1957; Rochford, Essex, England
Political party	Non-affiliated
Other political; affiliations	Conservative (before 2018)
Alma mater	Trinity College, Oxford ; College of Europe ; Wolfson College, Cambridge
Profession	Journalist
Website	www.andrewtyrie.com

Andrew Guy Tyrie, Baron Tyrie, PC (born 15 January 1957) is a British politician and former chair of the Competition and Markets Authority. A member of the Conservative Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Chichester from 1997 to 2017. Tyrie was previously a special adviser at HM Treasury and chair of the Treasury Select Committee, having taken up the role on 10 June 2010. He was described by Donald Macintyre of The Independent in 2013 as "the most powerful backbencher in the House of Commons", and by The Economist as a liberal conservative.

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