He was elected MP for Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, in 2010 and was quickly identified a a rising star.
Javid was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, one of five sons of parents of Pakistani heritage. His father was a bus driver.
He has compared himself to London Mayor Sadiq Khan , who also hails from Pakistani ancestry and whose father also drove buses.
Javid went to a comprehensive school in Bristol before studying economics and politics at Exeter University.
The climax of a meteoric rise in Britain's booming financial services industry saw him become a managing director at Deutsche Bank in 2004.
He has four children with wife Laura.
Tipped as a future Tory leader, Javid infamously had a portrait of Margaret Thatcher on the wall of his ministerial office.
The former City banker sat on the work and Pensions Select Committee, then the powerful Public Accounts Committee.
Javid, who comes from a Muslim background but does not practise any religion, was particularly close to Chancellor George Osborne and was appointed a Treasury Minister in September 2012.
He was elevated to the Cabinet as Culture Secretary in April of that year and became Business Secretary in May 2015 after the Tories' shock election outright victory.
In July 2016, Theresa May made him Communities and Local Government secretary as she formed her first Cabinet following David Cameron's resignation in the wake of the Brexit referendum.
Javid was seen as a reluctant Remainer and was an outspoken opponent of “ever closer union”.
He has been blasted for failing to get a hold of the housing crisis gripping the country, but won plaudits for standing up to Labour over anti-Semitism and to Donald Trump over his inflammatory tweets.
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