Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
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The Right Honourable The Baroness Neville-Jones DCMG PC |
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| Minister of State for Security and Counter Terrorism |
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In office 12 May 2010 – 9 May 2011 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | The Lord West of Spithead |
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James Brokenshire (as Parliamentary Under-Secretary) |
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Lilian Pauline Neville-Jones 2 November 1939 Birmingham |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater | Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford |
Lilian Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones DCMG PC (born 2 November 1939) is a former BBC Governor and Chairman of the British Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC).
Before her elevation to the peerage she was styled Dame Pauline Neville-Jones, DCMG and, on 12 May 2010, Prime Minister David Cameron appointed Lady Neville-Jones his 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 Lady Neville-Jones had resigned her role as Security Minister at "her own request"; her security brief was taken over by James Brokenshire. She was then immediately appointed as "Special Representative to Business on Cyber Security".
Lady Neville-Jones was educated at Leeds Girls' High School and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (Modern History).
Lady Neville-Jones was a career member of Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service from 1963 to 1996, during which time she served in British Missions in Rhodesia, Singapore, Washington, DC and Bonn. Between 1977 and 1982 she was seconded to the European Commission where she worked as Deputy and then Chef de Cabinet to Commissioner Christopher Tugendhat.
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