David Mowat was born and brought up in the Midlands, attending his local grammar school before studying Engineering at Imperial College where he joined the RAF as a cadet pilot officer.
After graduating, David qualified as a Chartered Accountant. He joined the consultancy firm Accenture where he became a Global Managing Partner.
He was elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Warrington South in 2010. Since being elected to Parliament, David has served on: Board of the Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology; Joint Select Committee on the draft Financial Services Bill; Scottish Affairs Select Committee from 2010 to 2012; and was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 2012-2016.
David was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Community Health and Care in July 2016, with a brief including adult social care, primary care, dementia and integration.
1. What is your current position?
Member of Parliament for Warrington South and Minister for Community Health and Care.
2. What are your proudest achievements?
a) Having 4 more or less normal children
b) in my work career as having created a business employing 15,000 working with a few colleagues.
3. What inspires you?
Bringing clarity to complex problems.
4. What has been the biggest obstacle in your career?
Over estimation of other people.
5. Who has been the biggest influence on your career to date?
My previous work mentor Tim Forrest.
6. What is the best aspect about your current role?
Can make very complex and difficult organisation work better and more productively.
7. And the worst?
The fact that organisations are over complicated in first place.
8. What are your long term goals?
To be the best that I can be.
9. If you were Prime Minister, what one aspect would you change?
Make sure that people were evaluated on what they did not what they said.
10. If you were marooned on a desert island. Which historical figure would you like to spend your time with and why?
Bob Dylan but he is still alive. Failing that Bobby Fischer the chess grandmaster.
