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Revision as of 02:27, 11 October 2014
Patience Wheatcroft (Baroness Wheatcroft) is a Conservative member of the House of Lords.[1] She was made a life peer in December 2010.[2]
She is a former editor of the Sunday Telegraph and the Wall Street Journal Europe.[3]
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House of Lords committees
In 2011 Wheatcroft sat on the joint committee that scrutinised the UK's Draft Financial Services Bill, which introduces a new structure for financial regulation. After this committee disbanded shortly after it reported in 2011, she took up a number of paid roles for financial and lobbying companies. Other committees include:
- Finance Bill Sub-Committee Lords 2014-
- Olympic and Paralympic Legacy Committee Lords 2013-13
- Finance Bill Sub-Committee Lords 2012-13
- Constitution Committee (L) Lords 2012-
- Special Public Bill Committee Lords 2012-12
Directorships
Wheatcroft is a non-executive director at wealth management firm St James’s Place plc (since 2012) and at Fiat S.p.A (automobiles)
Wheatcroft sat on the board of think tank Policy Exchange from June 2012 until November 2013.
She was a non-executive director at Barclays in February 2009. [4]
Advisory roles
Baroness Wheatcroft is a paid 'business consultant (legal services' to lobbyist-law firm DLA Piper, which represents some of the largest financial firms in the world. [2]
She is also a paid member of the advisory board of financial and corporate lobbyists Pelham Bell Pottinger[2], a role she has held since 2012.[5]
She was a task force member of the Henry Jackson Initiative 2012 report 'Towards an Inclusive Capitalism'.
Non-financial interests
- Member, UK-India Round Table[2]
- Visiting Fellow, Centre for Corporate Reputation, Oxford University[2]
- Trustee, British Museum[2]
- Member, Advisory Board, Reuters Institute for Study of Journalism[2]
- Trustee, Policy Exchange [6]
Affiliations
Notes
- ↑ Baroness Wheatcroft, www.parliament.uk, accessed 8 April 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Baroness Wheatcroft, uk.parliament.co.uk, acc 11 October 2014
- ↑ Baroness Patience Wheatcroft, Pelham Bell Pottinger, accessed 8 April 2013.
- ↑ Dates to be checked
- ↑ Melanie Newman House of Bankers: 16% of Lords are paid by City firms The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, 10 July 2012, accessed 9 October 2014
- ↑ check status
