Rt Hon Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones DCMG is a Conservative peer in the House of Lords. In the 1980s she was Chef de Cabinet to the European Budget Commissioner, Christopher Tugendhat, and later headed the FCO Policy Planning staff. She participated in the German unification negotiations, became 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 later served as Minister of State for Security and Counter Terrorism. She has chaired QinetiQ, served as a BBC Governor and been a member of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. She is a Chevalier of the Legion d’Honneur.