Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones (2010)

Lilian Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones DCMG (born November 2, 1939 in Birmingham ) is a British diplomat , economic manager and politician for the Conservative Party , who has been a member of the House of Lords since 2007 and was Minister of State for Security between 2010 and 2011 Home office was.

Life

Diplomat

In 1963 Pauline Neville-Jones joined the Foreign Service of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and was initially third secretary at the High Commission in Rhodesia between 1964 and 1965 and then third and lastly second secretary at the High Commission in Singapore until 1968 . After working for the Commonwealth of Nations Foreign Affairs and Affairs Department on Mediterranean Affairs between 1968 and 1971 , she became First Secretary at the US Embassy .

After a further position in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Pauline Neville-Jones first became Deputy Head of Cabinet in 1977 and was most recently head of cabinet to Christopher Tugendhat , who at that time was Commissioner for Financial Planning and Budget of the European Commission , until 1982 . After completing advanced training courses at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA) in Chatham House and at the Institut Français des Relations Internationales in Paris , she was head of the political planning team at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 1983 and 1987 and, because of her services there, was appointed companion in the Order of St. Michael and St. George added.

She then became head of the economic department at the embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany and last held this position from 1988 to 1991 as envoy . Upon her return, Pauline Neville-Jones served until 1994 as Deputy Undersecretary of State for Overseas and Defense Policy in the Cabinet Office , the office of Prime Minister John Major . In this capacity, she was also chairman of the United Committee on Intelligence between 1993 and 1994.

In 1994 she was appointed Political Director of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and she was raised to the lower nobility as Dame Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George upon completion of this activity and her resignation from the foreign service in 1996 .

Activities in the private sector

After a short period from February to July 1996 as Senior Adviser of Carl Bildt , who at that time High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina was, she moved to the private sector and was initially to 1998 head of global corporate strategy of the National Westminster Bank Plc belonging Company NatWest Markets as well as chairwoman of NatWest Markets in France . From 1998 to 2000, she was Vice Chairman of the Board of Management of Hawkpoint Partners, which also belongs to the NatWest Group.

At that time, dedicated Pauline Neville-Jones, the Council since 1996 Member think tank International Institute for Strategic Studies is (IISS), also from 1997 to 2003 as a member of the Council of the City University London and from 1998 to 2004 as a member of the BBC Board of Governors .

Pauline Neville-Jones, who received an honorary doctorate from The Open University in 1998 and another honorary doctorate in economics from the University of London in 1999 , was CEO of QinetiQ Group plc from 2003 to 2006 . At the same time, she was Chair of the Information Security Advisory Board from 2003 to 2007 and a member of the University of Oxford Council from 2003 to 2006 .

House of Lords

By a letters patent dated October 15, 2007, Dame Pauline Neville-Jones, who has headed the Conservative Party Group on National and International Security Policy since 2006, was named a Life Peeress with the title Baroness Neville-Jones , of Hutton Roof in the County of Cumbria, raised to the higher nobility . Shortly thereafter, she was introduced as a member of the House of Lords .

In the following years she was first in the shadow cabinet of the conservative Tories "shadow minister" for security and at the same time from July 2007 to October 2010 national security advisor to David Cameron , who at that time was leader of the opposition in the House of Commons .

After the Conservative Party's victory in the general election on May 6, 2010 , she was appointed Minister of State for Security in the Ministry of the Interior ( Home Office ) in the government of Prime Minister and was at the same time government spokesperson for the Ministry of the Interior until May 2011. Baroness Neville-Jones has been the special representative for the security of cyber society since 2011 .

She is also a member of the Advisory Board of Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford , a board member of the Center for European Reform and a trustee of the Cyclotron Trust .

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on July 29, 2012)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed July 29, 2012)
• Biography in Debrett’s (accessed on July 29, 2012)