Oliver Kamm

Oliver Kamm (born 1963) is a British journalist and writer. Since 2008 he has been a leader writer and columnist for The Times. Before that he had a 20-year career in the financial sector.

Predominantly identifying with the left and liberal issues, he is a prominent supporter of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. An advocate of the foreign policies pursued by the Blair government, Kamm wrote a short book, Anti-Totalitarianism: The Left-wing Case for a Neoconservative Foreign Policy (2005), which puts forward the case for an interventionist neoconservative foreign policy.

The son of translator Anthea Bell, and Antony Kamm, he was educated at New College, Oxford and Birkbeck College, University of London.

Kamm embarked on to a career in the financial sector, working for 20 years in the City of London as an economist and investment strategist. He had posts in the Bank of England and the securities industry, including as European Equity Strategist and European Quantitative Strategist at HSBC Securities and Head of Strategic Research at Commerzbank Global Equities in London. He helped start a pan-European investment bank in 1997.

Kamm describes his politics as left-wing. His early activities in Labour included canvassing in Leicester South in the 1979 general election, which saw Margaret Thatcher become Prime Minister. While he continued to vote Labour into the 1980s, he eventually became dissatisfied with the party's leadership and policies, particularly its stance on nuclear disarmament, and left the party in 1988, but has continued to vote for the party on the majority of occasions. He worked for the 1997 election campaign of Martin Bell, who is his uncle, against incumbent Neil Hamilton, drafting a manifesto "so right-wing that Hamilton was incapable of outflanking it."

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