Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

Dame Pauline Neville -Jones Lilian, Baroness Neville -Jones of Hutton Roof in the County of Cumbria DCMG ( born November 2, 1939 in Birmingham) is a British diplomat, business manager and politician of the Conservative Party, which since 2007 Member of the House of Lords is between 2010 and 2011 and Minister of State for Security in the home office was.

Life

Diplomat

1963 Pauline Neville -Jones joined the Foreign Service of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and was initially 1964-1965 Third Secretary at the High Commission in Rhodesia and in connection to 1968 Third and last Second Secretary at the High Commission in Singapore. After the ministry she was 1968-1971 for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of Nations staff member for Mediterranean issues, it was first secretary at the embassy in the United States.

After further work at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Pauline Neville -Jones in 1977, first deputy head of cabinet and was last to 1982, Head of Cabinet of Christopher Tugendhat, who was Commissioner for Financial Programming and Budget of the European Commission at that time. After she subsequently completed training courses at the Royal Institute of International Affairs ( RIIA ) at Chatham House and at the Institut Français des Relations Internationales in Paris, she was 1983-1987 Head of the Policy Planning Staff in the State Department and was the ground of its merits Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.

She then became head of the economic department at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany and has held this function latest from 1988 to 1991 as an ambassadress. After returning Pauline Neville -Jones served until 1994 as Deputy Under Secretary of State for Overseas and Defence Policy in the Cabinet Office, the Office of Prime Minister John Major. In this role, she was at the same time between 1993 and 1994 Chairman of the United Committee for the intelligence services.

In 1994, her appointment as Political Director of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and was appointed at the completion of this activity, and they have left the Foreign Service in 1996 Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George.

Activities in the private sector

After a short period from February to July 1996 as a Senior Adviser of Carl Bildt, who was High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina at that time, she moved to the private sector and was initially to 1998 director for global corporate strategy, belonging to the National Westminster Bank Plc company NatWest Markets and at the same time chairman of NatWest Markets in France. After that she was from 1998 to 2000 Vice - Chairman of the also part of the NatWest Group company Hawkpoint Partners.

At this time engaged Pauline Neville - Jones, who is since 1996 a member of the Council of the think-tank International Institute for Strategic Studies ( 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 and in 1999 a further honorary doctorate in economics from the University of London in 1998, was from 2003 to 2006 CEO of QinetiQ Group plc. At that time she was at the same time between 2003 and 2007 Chairman of the Advisory Board on Information Security and the Council of the University of Oxford from 2003 to 2006 a member.

House of Lords member

By Letters Patent of 15 October 2007 Dame Pauline Neville -Jones, since 2006 head of the group of the Conservative Party for National and International Security Policy, as Life Peeress with the title Baroness Neville -Jones of Hutton Roof in the County of Cumbria was in ennobled. Shortly afterwards, was their introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords.

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

After the electoral victory of the Conservative Party in the general election on 6 May 2010, she was Minister of State for Security in the Ministry of the Interior (Home Office ) in the government of Prime Minister and as such was at the same time until May 2011 government interior ministry spokeswoman. Since 2011, Baroness Neville -Jones 's Special Representative for the security of the cyber society.

In addition, she is involved as a member of the Advisory Board of Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, as a board member of the Centre for European Reform, as well as a trustee of the Cyclotron Trust.