Olukemi Olufunto Badenoch (/ˈbeɪdnɒk/ BAYD-NOK; née Adegoke, 2 January 1980) is a British politician serving as the Secretary of State for International Trade, President of the Board of Trade and Minister for Women and Equalities since 2022.
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She is married to Hamish Badenoch; they have two daughters and a son. Hamish works for Deutsche Bank and was a Conservative councilor from 2014 to 2018 on Merton Borough Council, representing Wimbledon Village.
He also unsuccessfully contested Foyle for the Northern Ireland Conservatives at the 2015 general election. Badenoch was a board member of the Charlton Triangle Homes housing association until 2016 and was also a school governor at St Thomas the Apostle College in Southwark, and the Jubilee Primary School.
Badenoch describes herself as a cultural Christian and notes that her maternal grandfather was a Methodist minister in Nigeria. Badenoch’s father Femi died in February 2022 and she took bereavement leave from her ministerial duties for a brief period