Early Life
Tom Brake was born in Melton Mowbray, moving to France when he was eight. He was educated at the Lycée International School in Saint-Germain-en-Laye near Paris, and Imperial College London, where he obtained a BSc in Physics in 1983. He was a computer software consultant with Hoskyns (Capgemini) from 1983 until his election to Westminster. He was elected as a councillor in the London Borough of Hackney in 1988, leaving the council in 1990.
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