After reading Law at Clare College, Cambridge University, Sam qualified as a European and Competition Lawyer at the city law firm of Herbert Smith. Sam advised large multi-national companies on antitrust and merger control laws. She worked in this role for 5 years, during which time she spent time on secondment to the Brussels office and at the London Stock Exchange as an in-house adviser.
Sam is now a full time mother to her three children, all of whom attended Little Oaks Nursery and Howe Green House School. She is also the Chair of a Cancer Research UK fundraising committee, Bishop’s Stortford Friends of Cancer Research UK.