Alan Mak was first elected as the Conservative Party MP for Havant in 2015, being re-elected in 2019 with a majority of 21,792.
The constituency of Havant is located along the M27 in the south eastern corner of Hampshire near Portsmouth. A long standing Conservative seat, it contains the towns of Havant, Emsworth and Waterlooville.
Mak was appointed to the government whips office in 2021.
Alan Mak was the first ever ethnic Chinese person elected to Westminster.
Born in 1983, he grew up in York where his parents started and ran a small family business, with his family living above their shop. He attended St Peter’s School in York, benefiting from the Assisted Places Scheme.
Mak read Law at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, where he won the ECS Wade Prize for Administrative Law (Top of Year). Before being elected to Westminster, he worked as a corporate lawyer for Clifford Chance.
He supported ‘Remain’ in the 2016 referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union, and backed Jeremy Hunt in the 2019 Conservative leadership election.
Alan Mak is Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and Vice Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Groups on South West Railway, and UK Islands.
Mak is a Christian and a member of the Conservative Christian Fellowship.
He has been awarded the Freedom of the City of London and is a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).
Email: alan.mak.mp@parliament.uk
Personal Website: http://www.alanmak.org.uk/
Twitter: @AlanMakMP
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/AlanMakHavant
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanmakhavant
