Lord Dolar Popat
Politician
Lord Dolar Popat is a British-Ugandan accountant, businessman, and Conservative life peer in the House of Lords. He was born in Busolwe, Uganda, in 1953, and arrived in the United Kingdom in 1971, a year before the expulsion of many Indians from Uganda. After practising as an accountant in the late 1970s, Popat specialized in business and corporate finance.
In 2010, Popat was ennobled on the recommendation of the Prime Minister David Cameron, for his services to small and medium sized businesses and to the wider community. He took the title of Lord Popat of Harrow as it was there that his parents lived when they moved to Britain.
Popat has served as the Prime Minister's Trade Envoy to Rwanda and Uganda since 2016. He is also a member of the House of Lords Select Committee on European Union Exit and the House of Lords International Relations and Defense Committee.