Ben Houchen

The Lord Houchen of High Leven
Houchen in 2024
Tees Valley Mayor
Assumed office
8 May 2017
Preceded byOffice established
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
12 July 2023
Life peerage
Personal details
Born
Ben Houchen

(1986-12-09) 9 December 1986 (age 37)
Stockton-on-Tees, England
Political partyConservative
Spouse
Rachel Flanagan
(m. 2011)
Residence(s)Yarm, North Yorkshire, England
Alma materNorthumbria University
WebsiteOfficial website

Ben Houchen, Baron Houchen of High Leven (born 9 December 1986), is a British Conservative politician and life peer. He has been Tees Valley Mayor since 2017, winning the inaugural mayoral election in the combined authority. Houchen was re-elected in 2021 and won a third term in 2024.

As mayor, Houchen represents the five local authority areas in the Tees Valley: Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees, Redcar and Cleveland, Hartlepool, and Darlington, and he also acts as chairman of the Tees Valley Combined Authority, the body tasked with driving economic growth and job creation in the area.[1]

As of May 2024, Houchen is the only Conservative combined-authority mayor in England.

  1. ^ "About Us". Tees Valley Combined Authority. Retrieved 12 April 2018.