Pauline Neville-Jones
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Dame Pauline Neville-Jones DCMG (born November 2, 1939) is a former BBC Governor and Chairman of the British Joint Intelligence Committee.
Dame Pauline was educated at Leeds Girls' High School and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (Modern History).
Pauline Neville-Jones was a career member of the UK 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.
From 1991 to 1994 she was Head of the Defence and Overseas Secretariat in the Cabinet Office and Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet. For a very short period of just five weeks from the end of 1993 to the beginning of 1994 she was Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee (though in media appearances she quotes a "two-year chairmanship"). 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 Dayton negotiations on the Bosnia peace settlement.
Dame Pauline was Chairman of the Audit Committee from 1998: she stood down from that position in September, 2004.
She was appointed a BBC Governor in January, 1998. Her final post was as the Chairman of the Governors' World Service Consultative Group. She left the BBC on December 31, 2004. She was also non-executive chairman of QinetiQ, the UK/US defence company from 2002 to 2005.
In January 2006 Dame Pauline joined one of the Conservative Party's new 'policy groups' on national security.
She is an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall and Doctor of the London and Open Universities.
She was made a Commander of the Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1987, and was raised to Dame Commander (DCMG) in the 1995 New Year's Honours.
