Lilian Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones (born 2 November 1939) is a British politician and former civil servant who served as Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) from 1993 to 1994. A member of the

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, she served on the National Security Council and was Minister of State for Security and Counter Terrorism at the Home Office from 2010 to 2011. BOn 12 May 2010, Prime Minister David Cameron appointed her as Minister of State for Security and Counter Terrorism in the Home Office with a permanent position on the newly created National Security Council. On 9 May 2011, the BBC reported that Neville-Jones had left her role as Security Minister at "her own request"; her security brief was taken over by

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. She was then immediately appointed as "Special Representative to Business on Cyber Security".

Education

Lady Neville-Jones was educated at

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and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (Modern History).

Career

Civil Service

Neville-Jones was a career member of

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from 1963 to 1996, during which time she served in British Missions in Rhodesia,

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and

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. Between 1977 and 1982 she was seconded to the

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where she worked as Deputy and then

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to Commissioner Christopher Tugendhat. From 1991 to 1994 she was Head of the Defence and Overseas Secretariat in the Cabinet Office and Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet. During 1993 and 1994 she was Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee. From 1994, until her retirement, she was Political Director in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, in which capacity she led the British delegation to the

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negotiations on the Bosnia peace settlement. In 2003 the Bosnian leader

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commented that during these negotiations she "never tried to conceal her dislike for us".

BBC

She was appointed a BBC governor in January 1998. Her final post was as chairman of the Governors'

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Consultative Group. Neville-Jones was chairman of the

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from 1998 until standing down from that position in September 2004 and left the BBC on 31 December 2004.

Defence

From 2002 to 2005, Neville-Jones was non-executive chairman of the part Government-owned defence technology company QinetiQ, which was

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for £1.3 billion in February 2006. She was chairman of the Information Assurance Advisory Council until 2007.

Politics

From left to right Dean Godson and Baroness Neville - Jones DCMG PC

In January 2006 she joined one of the

's new 'policy groups' on national security. On 2 July 2007 her appointment as a

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and

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Security Minister was announced. Her title was gazetted as ''Baroness Neville-Jones, of Hutton Roof in the County of Cumbria'' on 15 October 2007. On 9 January 2009, Lady Neville-Jones warned that Israel's ongoing war in the Gaza Strip would encourage revolutionary Islamism in Arab countries and Islamic terrorism beyond, and called for a revival of the

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. On 13 May 2010, she was appointed Minister of State for Security and Counter Terrorism in David Cameron's Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition government, and was also sworn of the Privy Council. On 31 March 2011 she told ''

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'' that Britain's Muslim population needs to be persuaded by the Government that Britain is a single nation, and that they can't just "rub along together" but must be persuaded that their long-term future lies in Britain. Neville-Jones later spoke out against "internet hate preaching and jihadist rhetoric", arguing that the

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was likely to have been inspired by such material. Pauline Neville-Jones and Ahmed Rashid at HISF 2012

On 9 May 2011, Neville-Jones left her post as Minister of State for Security and Counter-Terrorism in the Home Office at her own request. In November 2014, Neville-Jones presented a speech at the

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, which she prefaced with an op-ed in a Toronto newspaper. She wrote about the quantum technology revolution and related that the "policy failure" of the

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was due to "outdated intelligence, lack of ability to test agent information against other sources and misinterpretation of apparent battlefield evidence".

Positions

Neville-Jones is an honorary fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and an honorary doctor of the

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and the

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. In August 2013, the Council on CyberSecurity announced that she had joined the organization's Advisory Board. Chevalier légion d'honneur 2

Honours

Appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the

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, she was raised to

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(DCMG) in the 1995

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. Neville-Jones also received the Légion d'honneur (Chevalier) in 2009. She was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2013.

Styles

* Pauline Neville-Jones (1939–1987) * Pauline Neville-Jones, CMG (1987–1995) * Dame Pauline Neville-Jones,

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(1995–2007) * ''The Right Honourable'' The Baroness Neville-Jones,

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PC (2010–present)

References

External links

Profile on the Conservative Party website

Guardian, 3 July 2007 Joining the Shadow Team

Interview with the Alligator magazine, 23 January 2010
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