The Rt Hon. Lord [William] Waldegrave of North Hill
Government, business, and education
PCV
Distinguished Fellow since 2001
I am a senior adviser to Coutts & Co, and a member of the House of Lords. I am Trustee of a number of charities and contributor to the national press, most recently to the New Statesman
- Director of companies including family farming company
- Chancellor, University of Reading (2016-22)
- Coutts & Co (Chm 2014-22)
- Member President’s advisory Cttee, Royal Society (from 2012)
- Biotech Growth Trust (chmn 2012-16)
- Chmn Royal Mint Advisory Cttee (2011-21)
- Cumberland Lodge (2009-17)
- Advisory Board Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University (from 2008)
- Strawberry Hill Trust (2008-13)
- a Vice-Chm and Man Dir, UBS, senior consultant (2008-12)
- Henry Sotheran Ltd (Chmn 2007-15)
- International Advisory Board, Teijin Ltd. (2006-08)
- Mandela Rhodes Foundation (2003-11)
- Chmn Museum of Science and Industry (2002-10)
- Distinguished Fellow, All Souls College (from 2001)
- Two-Year Fellow, All Souls College (1999-2001)
- Beit Memorial Fellowships for Med Research (1998-2006)
- A Man. Dir, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (1998-2003)
- Chief Secretary, Treasury (1995-7)
- Minister of Agriculture (1994-5)
- Trustee Rhodes Trust (1992-2011) (Chmn 2002-11)
- Chancellor, Duchy of Lancaster, (Minister of Science and Civil Service) (1992-4)
- Parliamentary Sec DES and DOE, Minister of State DES, and FCO; Sec of State for Health (1990-2)
- MP (C) Bristol West (1979-97)
- Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (1979 – 86)
- GEC Ltd (1975-81)
- JP Inner London Juvenile Court (1975-9)
- Head of Leader of Opposition’s Office, (1974-5)
- Political Secretary 10 Downing St (1973-4)
- Examination Fellow, All Souls College (1971-8)
- Central Policy Review Staff, Cabinet Office (1971-3)
- Harvard University (Kennedy Fellow 1969-70)
- Undergraduate, Corpus Christi College (Lit Hum) (Hon Fellow 1991)
- The Binding of Leviathan: Conservatism and the Future (London: Hamish Hamilton Kind of Weather, A 1978);
- A Different Kind of Weather, A Memoir (London: Constable 2015);
- Three Circles into One (London: Mensch 2019)
- House of Lords since 1999
- Trustee of a number of charities