Liz Sugg, Baroness Sugg

The Right Honourable The Baroness Sugg CBE
File:Official portrait Baroness Sugg crop 2, 2022.jpg Sugg in 2022
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Overseas Territories and Sustainable Development
In office 23 April 2019 – 25 November 2020
Prime Minister	Theresa May Boris Johnson
Preceded by	The Lord Bates
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Aviation
In office 27 October 2017 – 23 April 2019
Prime Minister	Theresa May
Preceded by	The Lord Callanan
Succeeded by	The Baroness Vere of Norbiton
Baroness-in-Waiting Government Whip
In office 11 June 2017 – 27 October 2017
Prime Minister	Theresa May
Preceded by	The Baroness Buscombe
Succeeded by	The Baroness Stedman-Scott
Member of the House of Lords
Incumbent
Assumed office 11 October 2016
Personal details
Born	(1977-05-02) 2 May 1977
Political party	Conservative
Alma mater	Newcastle University

Elizabeth Grace Sugg, Baroness Sugg CBE (born 2 May 1977) is a British politician, life peer and former political adviser. A member of the Conservative Party, she served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Overseas Territories and Sustainable Development between February and November 2020.

Education and career

Sugg grew up and went to school in Surrey attending Epsom College. She graduated from Newcastle University with a degree in Politics and Economics.

She served as Head of Operations at 10 Downing Street under the premiership of David Cameron. She led the preparation of key international meetings hosted by the UK such as the G7 Summit in Lough Erne in 2013 and the NATO Summit 2014 in Wales. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2015 Dissolution Honours.

She was nominated for a life peerage in the 2016 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours and was created Baroness Sugg, of Coldharbour in the London Borough of Lambeth, on 30 August 2016.

Sugg was a government whip as a Baroness-in-Waiting from June to October 2017. She was then appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Aviation at the Department for Transport on 27 October 2017, replacing Lord Callanan. From 23 April 2019 until the February 2020 reshuffle she was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development. She was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State and Minister for the Overseas Territories and Sustainable Development on 13 February 2020, and Special Envoy for Girls' Education on 5 March 2020.

On 25 November 2020 she resigned from her ministerial role at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office following the announcement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, that the overseas aid budget would be reduced.