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Lord [[Paul Boateng]] is a former Labour cabinet minister, and served as British High Commissioner in South Africa from 2005 to 2009.<ref name="Times">Jonathan Oliver, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6908050.ece Lobbying row as ex-minister Paul Boateng lands defence firm job], ''The Times'', 8 November 2009.</ref> | Lord [[Paul Boateng]] is a former Labour cabinet minister, and served as British High Commissioner in South Africa from 2005 to 2009.<ref name="Times">Jonathan Oliver, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6908050.ece Lobbying row as ex-minister Paul Boateng lands defence firm job], ''The Times'', 8 November 2009.</ref> | ||
As High Commissioner, Boateng was involved in making representations to the South African government about its proposed legislation preventing South Africans from joining foreign military forces.<ref name="Times"/> | As High Commissioner, Boateng was involved in making representations to the South African government about its proposed legislation preventing South Africans from joining foreign military forces.<ref name="Times"/> | ||
| − | He sat on the board of private security company [[Aegis Defence Services]] from October 2009<ref name="Times"/> until [date tbc]. | + | He sat on the board of private security company [[Aegis Defence Services]] from October 2009<ref name="Times"/> until [date tbc]. His appointed was approved by [[ACOBA]] "subject to the conditions that, for six months from his last day in post, he should not return to South Africa for business purposes, give advice on it, or have dealings with companies there, and, for 12 months from that same date, he should not be personally involved in lobbying UK Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of his new employer or the Private Military and Security sector as a whole."<ref> [http://acoba.independent.gov.uk/media/20565/acobaeleventhreport2009-2010.pdf Eleventh Report 2009-2010] ''Advisory Committee on Business Appointments'', accessed 27 November 2014 </ref> |
Boateng joined the [[House of Lords]] in June 2010. <ref> [http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-boateng/147 Lord Boateng], acc 10 February 2014 </ref> | Boateng joined the [[House of Lords]] in June 2010. <ref> [http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-boateng/147 Lord Boateng], acc 10 February 2014 </ref> | ||
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Lord Paul Boateng is a former Labour cabinet minister, and served as British High Commissioner in South Africa from 2005 to 2009.[1]
As High Commissioner, Boateng was involved in making representations to the South African government about its proposed legislation preventing South Africans from joining foreign military forces.[1]
He sat on the board of private security company Aegis Defence Services from October 2009[1] until [date tbc]. His appointed was approved by ACOBA "subject to the conditions that, for six months from his last day in post, he should not return to South Africa for business purposes, give advice on it, or have dealings with companies there, and, for 12 months from that same date, he should not be personally involved in lobbying UK Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of his new employer or the Private Military and Security sector as a whole."[2]
Boateng joined the House of Lords in June 2010. [3]
Affiliations
Remunerated interests as at February 2014:
- Interim Chair, Africa Intellectual Property Trust (paid a fee/honorarium for work done to establish this not-for-profit organisation/charity registered in the United States by Light Years Inc of Washington DC)
- Member, Health Policy Advisory Board, Gilead Sciences Inc
- Chair, Advisory Board, Aventa Capital Partners
- Occasional Consultant on African Governance for MRL Public Sector Consultants Limited
- Member, Advisory Board of Protection Group International Ltd
External resources
- Oral Evidence, Iraq Inquiry, 14 July 2010.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Jonathan Oliver, Lobbying row as ex-minister Paul Boateng lands defence firm job, The Times, 8 November 2009.
- ↑ Eleventh Report 2009-2010 Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, accessed 27 November 2014
- ↑ Lord Boateng, acc 10 February 2014
