Sarah Jane Olney (née McGibbon; born 11 January 1977) is a British Liberal Democrat politician and former accountant who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Richmond Park since 2019, and previously from 2016 to 2017. Olney has served as the Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Treasury since July 2022, and for Business and Industrial Strategy since January 2020. She was the constituency's MP for six months, from a by-election in December 2016 to the general election in June 2017, and then two years later, she regained the seat at the 2019 general election, facing off against Zac Goldsmith of the Conservative Party in all three elections. She was the Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for International Trade from January 2020 to September 2020, and was Spokesperson for Education from May 2017 to June 2017. Whilst out of Parliament, she was a financial accountant for Historic Royal Palaces, from 2018 to 2019.
