About Mark Logan

Former Member of Parliament, Public Affairs Consultant, International Affairs specialist and media commentator

Mark Logan was born in County Antrim, UK in 1984. Mark attended Ballymena Academy, going on to gain qualifications from Queens University Belfast, LSE, University of Oxford, Peking University and Jiaotong University.

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Mark served as Chief Spokesman to the British Consulate-General Shanghai (Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office), as well as Olympic and Paralympic Attaché to the Embassy in Beijing during the 2008 Summer Olympics.

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In the private sector Mark was recruited to Head up the international engagement of a leading Asian multinational company, and subsequently became Country Marketing Manager for one of Silicon Valley’s leading consultancies. Earlier in his career Mark was a founding member of an education startup.

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Having been unsuccessful in contesting a parliamentary election in 2017, Mark was second time lucky in winning Bolton North East in the United Kingdom’s 2019 General Election.

Between 2019-2024 Mark’s list of achievements included:

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• 2022-2024: Parliamentary Private Secretary to Department of Work & Pensions

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• Formerly Parliamentary Private Secretary to Northern Ireland Office

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• Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group Afghanistan

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• Leading Vice-Chair of:

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All-Party Parliamentary Group China

All-Party Parliamentary Group Japan

All-Party Parliamentary Group British Council (personally responsible for East Asia)

All-Party Parliamentary Group Northern Ireland

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• 2020-2023: Member of Science & Technology Select Committee

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• 2020-2024: Permanent delegate to British Irish Parliamentary Assembly

Specialises

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Mark specialises in international politics and trade, with 20 years of experience in connecting the UK with markets in the Asia Pacific region. He has native-level fluency in Mandarin Chinese, understands some Shanghai dialect, and has been learning Japanese intensively since 2023.

Available for….

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Featured regularly in BBC, Newsnight, CNN, ITV, Financial Times, The Times, Quartz, Sky News, Channel 4 and various podcasts.

Mark is available for Media commentary on UK politics, social issues, levelling up and Northern Ireland.  Abroad, Mark is expert in diplomacy, the politics of China, Japan relations and the wider politics of East Asia.

Further affiliations

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Advisor to Oxford University-based Tech startup

Patron of Family and Babies organisation

Mentor University of Cambridge students programme

Ambassador China Young Watchers