Pauline Neville-Jones - minister of state
Pauline Neville-Jones is the minister of state responsible for security and counter-terrorism.
During a 30-year career as a diplomat (1963-1996), Pauline Neville-Jones served in British missions in various locations around the world, including the former Rhodesia, Singapore, Washington and Bonn. She also spent five years on secondment to the European Commission.
From 1991 to 1994, she was deputy secretary to the Cabinet and head of the defence and overseas secretariat in the Cabinet Office. Between 1993 and 1994, she was chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee. From 1994 until 1996, she was political director in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office.
Pauline is an honorary fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, and a Doctor of London University, City University and the Open University.
Conservative appointments
In January 2006, she was appointed by David Cameron to head the Conservative party’s National and International Security Policy Group. In July 2007, Pauline was appointed shadow security minister and national security adviser to David Cameron.
