Early Life
Tyrie was born at Rochford, Essex on January 15, 1957. He was educated at Felsted School and Trinity College, Oxford, where he read PPE, graduating as MA in 1979. He then went to the College of Europe at Bruges, earning a postgraduate Certificate of Advanced European Studies (equivalent to a master's degree), followed by Wolfson College, Cambridge, where he obtained the degree of MPhil. Tyrie worked at the group head office of British Petroleum from 1981-2003. From 1990-91, he was a Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, then a senior economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development from 1992-2007.
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