RT Hon Baroness Neville-Jones DCMG

Chair Person

Rt Hon Baroness (Pauline) Neville-Jones DCMG is a Conservative peer in the House of Lords where she currently sits on the Science and Technology Committee. 

In the 1980s she was Chef de Cabinet to the European Budget Commissioner, Christopher Tugendhat, and then became head of the FCO Policy Planning staff. She participated in the German unification negotiations. She was subsequently Head of the Defence and Overseas Secretariat in the Cabinet Office and chaired the Joint Intelligence Committee. As FCO Political Director she led the UK delegation to the Dayton agreement on Bosnia. She was David Cameron’s National Security Adviser in opposition where she designed the UK National Security Council and was Minister of State for Security and Counter Terrorism in the coalition government.

She has chaired the UK technology company QinetiQ, been a BBC Governor and a member of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.  She has served on the Councils of City, Oxford and Lancaster Universities. She is a Chevalier of the Legion d’Honneur.

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