Lyn Brown is Co-Chair of United Against Malnutrition & Hunger. She has dedicated her career to campaigning against poverty and injustice and has been a powerful advocate for international development. She served as Member of Parliament (MP) for West Ham from 2005 to 2024. In January 2025, Lyn was appointed to the House of Lords as Baroness Brown of Silvertown.
A member of the Labour Party, she served in Government as a Whip 2009-2010 and in the Whips Office in opposition until 2014. Lyn was a Shadow Minister for the Home Office from 2015 to 2016, Shadow Policing Minister from 2016 to 2017, Shadow Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury focusing on poverty from 2018 to 2020, and Shadow Minister for Prisons and Probation from 2020 to 2021. She served as the Shadow Minister for Africa until standing down from Parliament.