Pauline Neville-Jones

Dame Pauline Neville-Jones (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.