Mark Price, Baron Price

The Lord Price
Minister of State for Trade and Investment
In office
4 April 2016  28 September 2017
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Theresa May
Preceded byThe Lord Maude of Horsham
Succeeded byThe Baroness Fairhead
Member of the House of Lords
Life peerage
21 March 2016
Personal details
Born (1961-03-02) 2 March 1961
Crewe, England
Political partyConservative
SpouseJudith Bolt
ChildrenTwo
ResidenceSturminster Newton
Alma materLondon Business School
Lancaster University
OccupationBusinessman

Mark Ian Price, Baron Price CVO (born 2 March 1961) is a British businessman, Founder of WorkL for Business and WorkL, Chairman of Fair Trade UK, writer, President of the Chartered Management Institute and member of the House of Lords. He was a former Managing Director of Waitrose, and Deputy Chairman of the John Lewis Partnership. He joined the Conservative government as the Minister of State for Trade and Investment in April 2016.

On 3 September 2017 it was announced that Price would leave the government; on 28 September Rona Fairhead was appointed to succeed him.