Lucy Jeanne Neville-Rolfe, Baroness Neville-Rolfe was born on 2 January 1953 and is a British businesswoman and politician serving as Minister of State at the Cabinet Office since September 2022.
22 Facts About Lucy Neville-Rolfe
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Lucy Neville-Rolfe then worked at Tesco, serving on the board of directors from 2006.
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Lucy Neville-Rolfe was appointed a life peer in the House of Lords in 2013.
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Lucy Neville-Rolfe served in the first government of Theresa May as Minister of State for Energy and Intellectual Property at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy from July to December 2016 and as Commercial Secretary to the Treasury from 2016 to 2017.
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Lucy Neville-Rolfe became chair of Assured Food Standards in November 2017, stepping down in 2020.
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Lucy Neville-Rolfe was born at Wardour, Wiltshire, to the agricultural economist and artist Edmund Lucy Neville-Rolfe and Margaret Elizabeth.
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Lucy Neville-Rolfe grew up on a farm at Wardour with her parents and four siblings.
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Lucy Neville-Rolfe attended Catholic convent schools before studying philosophy, politics and economics at Somerville College, Oxford.
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Lucy Neville-Rolfe graduated with a BA, which was later promoted to an MA.
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Lucy Neville-Rolfe served on the board from 2006 as executive director until she retired in January 2013.
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Lucy Neville-Rolfe joined the House of Lords as a Conservative Peer in October 2013 and served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and Minister for Intellectual Property from July 2014 until July 2016.
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Lucy Neville-Rolfe was appointed Minister of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on 17 July 2016.
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Lucy Neville-Rolfe is a particularly prominent speaker on issues concerning business.
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Lucy Neville-Rolfe has delivered speeches on UK foreign trade agreements, with particular interest in China and India.
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Lucy Neville-Rolfe sat on the Parliamentary All-Party Parliamentary Group for Affordable Childcare.
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Lucy Neville-Rolfe had many non-executive positions which she resigned on appointment.
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Lucy Neville-Rolfe was a non-executive director of ITV Plc and a member of the supervisory board of Metro Group, a large German-based international retailer and wholesaler.
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Lucy Neville-Rolfe was President of EuroCommerce, the pan-European retail trade association, and sat on the boards of 2 Sisters Food Group and Hermes Equity Ownership Services and on PwC's Advisory Board.
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Lucy Neville-Rolfe is a former member of the London Business School's governing body.
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Lucy Neville-Rolfe was reappointed to the position by Truss' successor, Rishi Sunak, in October 2022.
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Lucy Neville-Rolfe was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 2005 Birthday Honours for services to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Board of Management, and a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to industry and voluntary service.
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Lucy Neville-Rolfe is married to Sir Richard Packer, who was Permanent Secretary at Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1993 until 2000.