About Brooks
Brooks Newmark is an entrepreneur, angel investor, philanthropist, and social reform campaigner.
Brooks is Founder and Chairman of Trypillian, British-Ukrainian defence tech company, and Founder and Chairman of Anglo REM, a British-Kazakh critical mineral company. Brooks is also a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Oxford, and a former politician who held a number of senior roles in the UK parliament over the course of a decade. Before entering politics, Brooks had a successful career in Private Equity as a Senior Partner at Apollo Global Management.
Brooks sits on the Government’s Rough Sleeper’s Advisory Panel, and in 2017 chaired a report on Homelessness in the UK with Crisis and the Centre for Social Justice.
Brooks is also a passionate philanthropist and is the Founder of A Partner in Education, a charity which works with Rwandan teachers to give children access to schooling and quality, inclusive education. As a devoted humanitarian, Brooks also founded the charity Angels for Ukraine in 2022, that evacuated over 35, 000 civilians primarily from the war zone in Eastern Ukraine and delivered essential aid across Ukraine.
Homelessness in the UK
Brooks sits on the Government’s Rough Sleeper’s Advisory Panel, and in 2017 chaired a report on Homelessness in the UK with Crisis and the Centre for Social Justice.
A Partner in Education
Brooks is also passionate about philanthropy, and is the Founder of A Partner in Education, a charity which works with Rwandan teachers to give children access to schooling and quality, inclusive education.
Angels for Ukraine
Brooks Newmark is a staunch humanitarian, and just days after the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he joined his friend Raitis Bullits to coordinate evacuations of Ukrainians civilians from the Polish border to a number of European countries. As the war progressed, Brooks moved into Ukraine and scaled up his work moving closer to the war frontline, primarily in Kharkiv and Donetsk Oblasts to evacuate women and children, as well as the elderly.
Since then, Brooks went on to evacuate over 35,000 civilians and wounded soldiers to safety in western Ukraine and Europe. Together with Raitis Bullits, Brooks founded the charity Angels for Ukraine.
Brooks Newmark is a steadfast social reform campaigner who has dedicated his career to building strong and healthy communities. In 2017, he chaired a Report on Homelessness in the UK with Crisis and the Centre for Social Justice, and is a Member of the Government’s Advisory Board on Rough Sleeping.
Brooks is a Member of the International Commission on Missing Persons Panel of Experts and has lectured and written on a range of subjects including the Conflict in Syria, Brexit, Homelessness and Private Equity.
Brooks was the Member of Parliament for Braintree (2005-15) Brooks served in the Coalition Government as Minister for Civil Society, with responsibility for charities, the voluntary sector and youth, having previously served on the Treasury Select Committee and as a Government Whip and Lord Commissioner HM Treasury.
Brooks was Co-Chairman and Founder of Women2Win (to encourage more women into politics and public service); and Founder of the Million Jobs Campaign (to tackle youth unemployment)
Brooks has served on the Board of the Harvard Alumni Association (Harvard University) and has served on the Advisory Boards of London Business School's Private Equity Institute and Tel Aviv University’s Recanati Institute.
Prior to entering politics Brooks was a Senior Partner at Apollo Global Management, a leading International Private Equity firm. Brooks is currently an Angel Investor and entrepreneur and founded Trypillian, a British Ukrainian defence tech company and Anglo REM a British Kazakh Critical Minerals Mining company.
Brooks was educated at Harvard College (AB History), Harvard Business School (MBA Finance) and Oxford University (MSc Education).
Brooks founded the charity A Partner In Education in 2010 and has built a primary school for 300 children, a secondary school for 100 children and a teacher training centre in Rwanda. Brooks also founded the charity Angels for Ukraine, which evacuated over 35,000 women and children, and wounded soldiers, and delivered essential humanitarian aid.
Publications:
Housing First: Housing-led Solutions to Rough Sleeping and Homelessness, Centre for Social Justice (2017); The Hidden Debt Bombshell (CPS, 2009); The Price of Irresponsibility (CPS, 2008); Simply Red – The True State of the Public Finances (CPS, 2006) Direct Democracy – An Agenda for a New Model Party (2005).
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