Patience Wheatcroft
Patience Wheatcroft (Baroness Wheatcroft) is a Conservative member of the House of Lords.[1]
She is a former editor of the Sunday Telegraph and the Wall Street Journal Europe.[2]
Baroness Wheatcroft is a paid adviser to lobbyist-law firm DLA Piper, which represents some of the largest financial firms in the world. Since the committee disbanded last year, the Baroness has also become a non-executive director at wealth management firm St James’s Place, and a member of the advisory board of Pelham Bell Pottinger, a financial and corporate communications firm.
Directorships
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. [3]
Advisory roles
Baroness Wheatcroft is a former paid adviser to lobbyist-law firm DLA Piper.[4]
She was a task force member of the Henry Jackson Initiative 2012 report 'Towards an Inclusive Capitalism'.
House of Lords committees
Wheatcroft sat on the joint committee that scrutinised the Draft Financial Services Bill, which introduces a new structure for financial regulation.
Affiliations
Notes
- ↑ Baroness Wheatcroft, www.parliament.uk, accessed 8 April 2013.
- ↑ 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
