For over thirty years Pauline Neville-Jones was a career diplomat serving in Rhodesia, Singapore, Washington, Bonn and the European Commission.
In 1991 she was appointed Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet and Head of the Defence and Overseas Secretariat in the Cabinet Office. After a brief stint as Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee she became Political Director in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1994 until her retirement, where she led the British delegation to the Dayton negotiations on the Bosnia peace settlement.
Since then she has held senior positions in NatWest, the BBC and Qinetiq before being appointed by David Cameron to head the Conservative Party's National and International Security Policy Group. Read its findings here. This summer Pauline was also appointed Shadow Security Minister and National Security Adviser to the Leader of the Opposition.
