Richard Charles Kemp, CBE, is the Lord Mayor of Liverpool for 2024/25.

Cllr Kemp has been a member of the Board of the Local Authority Mutual Investment Trust since 2011 and its Chair since 1 January 2019.

Outside politics Richard is the Chair of QS Impact a global charity which helps young people get involved in delivering the UN's Strategic Development Goals (SDGs) in more than 150 Countries.

They have 3 children, Jonathan, Emma and Rachel and 5 grandchildren Eva, Jonah, Raphael, Caladh and Mairi.

[citation needed] Kemp has three times stood for Parliament for the Liberal Democrats in the Liverpool Wavertree constituency, finishing second in 1997 and third in both 2017 and 2019.