Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones

Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones currently serves as UK Government Special Representative to Business on Cyber Security. Between 1993 and 1994 she was Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee. From 1994 until her retirement, she was Political Director of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, in which capacity she led the British delegation to the Dayton negotiations on the Bosnia peace settlement. From 1996 to 1998 she was Managing Director and Head of Global Business Strategy for NatWest Markets and Chairman of NatWest Markets France. She was Vice Chairman of Hawkpoint Partners Ltd., then the corporate advisory arm of NatWest Bank PLC, from 1998 to 2000. Pauline was a BBC Governor from January 1998 to 31 December 2004. She was Chairman of Qinetiq Group PLC from 2002-2005. In January 2006, she was appointed by David Cameron to head the Conservative Party’s National and International Security Policy Group. On 2 July 2007, Pauline was appointed Shadow Security Minister and National Security Advisor to the Leader of the Opposition. She took the title of Baroness Neville-Jones of Hutton Roof in the County of Cumbria on entry into the House of Lords in October 2007. In May 2010, Pauline was appointed Minister for Security and stepped down from this role in May 2011.