Lord Powell of Bayswater KCMG

Lord Powell of Bayswater KCMG was Private Secretary and adviser on foreign affairs and defence to Margaret Thatcher when she was Prime Minister and continued in the same role for the first months of John Major's government. Since 1992 he has been an international businessman, currently serving on the board of a number of major companies including LVMH, Caterpillar, Textron, Yell and Mandarin Oriental Hotels.  

Lord Powell is also Chairman of the International Advisory Board of Rolls-Royce, and a member of the Advisory Boards of Barrick Gold, ACE, Alfa Capital, Thales, GEMS and Diligence.

Among other roles, he is Chairman of Atlantic Partnership, Chairman of the Trustees of the Oxford University Business School Foundation and is a Trustee of the Aspen Institute in the USA. He is a cross-bench member of the House of Lords, where he serves on the European Union Select Committee, and is Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Entrepreneurship.