Hon David Seymour is the Minister for Regulation and the Associate Minister of Health (Pharmac), Finance, Education (Charter Schools), and Justice (Treaty Principles Bill). He was first elected to Parliament as MP for Epsom in 2014, at which point he became Leader of the ACT Party. 

David has degrees from the University of Auckland in electrical engineering and philosophy. Before politics, he worked as an electrical engineer in New Zealand and for private sector think tanks in Canada.