Rt Hon Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones

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.

She spent over 30 years in the FCDO, where she served in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia); Singapore, Washington and Bonn. She was Chef de Cabinet to the Budget Commissioner of the European Commission, Christopher Tugendhat, in the early eighties, and head of the FCO Policy Planning staff in the mid nineteen eighties. She was Deputy Head of Mission in Germany during unification and participated in the Unification negotiations. Returning to London, she was Head of the Defence and Overseas Secretariat in the Cabinet Office and chaired the Joint Intelligence Committee. As Political Director in the FCO she led the UK delegation to the Dayton Peace agreement on Bosnia. She was David Cameron’s National Security Adviser in opposition where she designed the National Security Council which came into operation in the coalition government in which she served as Minister of State for Security and Counter Terrorism. She is active in cyber security.

She has chaired the UK technology company QinetiQ plc, been a BBC Governor and has sat on the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. She has been a member the Councils of City, Oxford and Lancaster Universities. She is an honorary fellow of Lady Margaret Hall Oxford and has honorary degrees from London, Lancaster and the Open Universities. She is a Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George, a Privy Councillor and a Chevalier of the Legion d’Honneur.