Binita Mehta-Parmar is Head of Partnerships at a national charity and Chair of Watford Conservative Women's Organisation. She was a candidate for Watford Mayor in 2022 and the last Conservative Group leader at Watford Council: at 24, the youngest council group leader in the country. She is a published writer with articles in The Times, The Spectator and The Telegraph.
She was previously Deputy Chair of Watford Conservatives, Secretary of Watford and South West Herts Business Club, Trustee of the Barrow Cadbury Trust and founding Governor for Lanchester Community Free School. She currently sits on the board of Watford Palace Theatre, as Equality, Diversity and Inclusion lead, is Director of the Refugee, Asylum and Migration Parliamentary Project and is Advisory Board member of Conservatives Against Racism for Equality. Binita is a founding Director of Modern Britain, a centre-right think tank exploring innovative thinking on a range of issues important to BME communities, and authored a report on migration policy post-Brexit.
Binita read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Warwick and lives in Watford with her husband, who has many memories playing at Woollams!