Pauline Neville-Jones

Dame Pauline Neville-Jones is the Minister for Security at the Home Office.

(Chair Qinetiq plc, which runs the British Government's secret military laboratories and was set up by the MOD to work with the Carlyle Group to run DERA, the British Government's "Defence Evaluation and Research Agency". The CIA did much the same thing with In-Q-Tel, Inc. [1] Career member of the British Diplomatic Service, Foreign affairs adviser to John Major, from 91- 94 chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee which oversees information from MI5, MI6, DIS, GCHQ , Political Director of the FCO, IISS with Blix above, and also a Harkness Fellow, Governor the Ditchley Foundation and the BBC).

From a biography on the International Institute for Strategic Studies website:

Dame Pauline Neville-Jones is Chairman of QinetiQ Group plc, Chairman of the Information Assurance Advisory Council (IAAC), and the International Governor of the BBC with responsibility, among other things, for external broadcasting, notably the BBC World Service (radio and online) and BBC World (television).

Prior to that, she was a career member of the British Diplomatic Service serving, among other places, in Singapore, Washington DC, the European Commission in Brussels and Bonn. She was a foreign affairs adviser to Prime Minister John Major, chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee in Whitehall (1991- 1994) and, as Political Director in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, leader of the British delegation to the Dayton peace conference on Bosnia in 1995.

Between 1995 and 2000, she worked in the City of London as a Managing Director in NatWest Markets and as Vice Chairman of Hawkpoint Partners, a Corporate Advisory house. She is a graduate of Oxford University and was a Harkness Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund in the United States (1961-1963). She was made a Dame of the Order of St Michael and St George (DCMG) in 1995. She is a Doctor of the Open and London Universities.

Role at BBC and Qinetiq

The Observer reports:

The BBC chief who played a pivotal role in how the corporation covered the Iraq war and the David Kelly affair, stands to profit out of a firm with lucrative military contracts in Iraq.

Dame Pauline Neville-Jones, a BBC governor, emerged as one of the main figures in the feud between the BBC and the government in the fallout of the Hutton Inquiry into the death of weapons scientist Dr David Kelly, being blamed personally by former-director general Greg Dyke for his sacking.

Neville-Jones, a former chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, took an unusually active role in the Kelly affair, criticising Andrew Gilligan's reporting and also expressing unease about Kelly's expertise.

Now it has emerged that Neville-Jones chairs a company providing military equipment for US Humvees and Black Hawk helicopters, both of which are used in Iraq, leading to calls for her to reconsider her position as a governor.

Documents from Companies House reveal that Neville-Jones earned £133,000 last year as chairman of Qinetiq, the privatised research arm of the MoD.

International Commission on the Balkans

In 1996 Neville-Jones was appointed as a special advisor to Carl Bildt then 'High Representative' overseeing the civilian international effort to enforce the Bosnia peace agreement. After which she took up a post as managing director with NatWest Markets. This led to her appointment on the International Commission on the Balkans.

Affiliations

• The Intelligence Summit | Centre for European Reform | QinetiQ | International Institute for Strategic Studies | Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies | Ditchley Foundation | Risk and Security Management Forum | International Commission on the Balkans

References

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19960208/ai_n14027857