Pauline Neville-Jones
Lilian Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones DCMG PC (born 2 November 1939) is a former BBC Governor and Chairman of the British Joint Intelligence Committee. Before her elevation to the Peerage she was known as Dame Pauline Neville-Jones. On 12 May 2010, new Prime Minister David Cameron appointed Baroness Neville-Jones to be his Minister of State for Security working from the Home Office with a permanent position on the newly created National Security Council.[1]
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Education
Lady Neville-Jones was educated at Leeds Girls' High School and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (Modern History).
Career
Civil Service
Lady Neville-Jones was a career member of HM Diplomatic Service from 1963 to 1996, during which time she served in British Missions in Rhodesia, Singapore, Washington, DC and Bonn. Between 1977 and 1982 she was seconded to the European Commission where she worked as Deputy and then Chef de Cabinet to Commissioner Christopher Tugendhat.[2]
From 1991 to 1994 she was Head of the Defence and Overseas Secretariat in the Cabinet Office and Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet. During 1993 and 1994 she was Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee. From 1994, until her retirement, she was Political Director in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, in which capacity she led the British delegation to the Dayton negotiations on the Bosnia peace settlement.
BBC
She was appointed a BBC governor in January 1998. Her final post was as the Chairman of the Governors' World Service Consultative Group. Neville-Jones was Chairman of the Audit Committee from 1998: she stood down from that position in September 2004. She left the BBC on 31 December 2004.
Defence
From 2002 to 2005, Lady Neville-Jones was also non-executive chairman of the part Government-owned defence technology company QinetiQ, which was privatised for £1.3 billion in February 2006.
Politics
In January 2006 Dame Pauline joined one of the Conservative Party's new 'policy groups' on national security.
On 2 July 2007 it was announced that she would become shadow Security Minister and a working peer. This was gazetted as Baroness Neville-Jones, of Hutton Roof in the County of Cumbria on 15 October 2007.[3][4]
On 9 January 2009, she warned that Israel's ongoing war in the Gaza Strip would encourage revolutionary Islamism in Arab countries and Islamic terrorism beyond, and called for a revival of the Middle East peace process.[5]
On the 13 May 2010, she was appointed Minister of State for Security in David Cameron's Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government.
Positions
She is an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and Doctor of the University of London and the Open University.
Honours
She was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1987, and was raised to Dame Commander (DCMG) in the 1995 New Year's Honours.[6] She was appointed Chevalier (Knight) of the French Légion d'honneur in 2009.
References
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8679082.stm
- ↑ The Diplomatic Service List 1989 (page 263), HMSO, ISBN 0 11 591707 1.
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Styles
- Miss Pauline Neville-Jones (1939–1987)
- Miss Pauline Neville-Jones CMG (1987–1995)
- Dame Pauline Neville-Jones DCMG (1995–2007)
- The Rt. Hon. The Baroness Neville-Jones DCMG (2007–present)
