Lucy Neville-Rolfe

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Baroness Lucy Neville-Rolfe. Source:Wikicommons
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Lucy Neville-Rolfe (Baroness Neville-Rolfe) is a British peer and a parliamentary under-secretary of state to the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport.[1]

She was appointed to this role on 13 May 2015, having previously served as parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills from July 2014. [2]

Neville-Rolfe became a Conservative peer in the House of Lords on 10 September 2013.[3]

Neville-Rolfe is a former advisory board member of Big Four accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers; She reportedly resigned from all paid posts when she became a minister in July 2014.[4]

Private sector

After leaving the government in 1997, as the Blair government came in, Neville-Rolfe began working at Tesco. She retired in 2013 from her role as corporate and legal affairs director.[5][6]

Neville-Rolfe was part of a team which took control of Tesco's rapid growth both in the UK and globally.[5]

Public life roles

Affiliations

While at BIS Neville-Rolfe had responsibility for strategic relations with chemicals firms Ineos, BASF, Johnson Matthey, SABIC and ICT firms Imagination Technologies and ARM. [7]


She has held board roles at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Notes and references

  1. Baroness Neville-Rolfe Profile, www.Gov.UK, accessed 25 September 2015
  2. Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and Minister for Intellectual Property Baroness Neville-Rolfe DBE CMG, GOV.UK, accessed 17 September 2014.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Baroness-Neville-Rolfe Parliament.UK, accessed 22 December 2014
  4. Politics and Business in the House of Lords Parliament.UK, accessed 22 December 2014
  5. 5.0 5.1 Alex Lawson Analysis: Lucy Neville-Rolfe says farewell to Tesco Retail Week, 11 January 2013, accessed 23 December 2014
  6. Another Tesco boss leaves - this time it's Dame Lucy Neville-Rolfe Independent, 27 June 2012, accessed 23 December 2014
  7. HM Government Strategic Relations