Rt. Hon. Alex Chalk KC

The Rt. Hon. Alex Chalk, KC is an English qualified senior trial lawyer and former Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice.

After a successful career at the Bar, Alex served as a Member of Parliament for nearly a decade. In addition to sitting in Cabinet as Lord Chancellor, Alex held the posts of Minister of State for Defence Procurement and His Majesty's (HM) Solicitor General for England and Wales.

Before entering public life, Alex had a successful and diverse career at the Bar, where he advised and defended corporate clients in proceedings arising out of criminal investigations and acted for the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), among many others.

Alex has privately prosecuted a matter involving the criminal misappropriation of online metadata, acted on behalf of company directors accused of offenses under the Insolvency Act 1986, and recently finished prosecuting one of the United Kingdom's highest profile criminal trials of 2024.

In government, Alex was involved in promotion of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023, which introduced the "failure to prevent fraud" offense, with a direct impact on companies' compliance programs for the prevention of fraud by associated persons, and reformed the United Kingdom's test for attributing criminal liability to corporates for economic crimes.

As HM Solicitor General, Alex superintended the Law Officers' Departments, including the Crown Prosecution Service and SFO, as well as the Government Legal Department.