Baroness Neville-Rolfe DBE CMG
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and Minister for Intellectual Property
Baroness Neville-Rolfe was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and Minister for Intellectual Property in July 2014. She has been a Conservative member of the House of Lords since 2013.
Baroness Neville-Rolfe joined Tesco plc in 1997 and was an executive director on the main Board from 2006-2013.
Earlier in her career, Baroness Neville-Rolfe worked as a civil servant in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and in the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit. She served as Director of the Deregulation Unit in the Cabinet Office from 1995-1997.
Baroness Neville-Rolfe previously sat on the boards of several major businesses, including serving as a non-executive director of ITV plc and of 2 Sisters Food Group, a large privately owned UK food producer, as a member of the supervisory board of Metro Group, a large German-based international retailer and wholesaler, and on PWC’s advisory Board. She is a member of the London Business School’s Governing Body.
Baroness Neville-Rolfe served as President of EuroCommerce, the pan-European retail and wholesale trade association from 2012-2014. In 2007 she won a European Women of Achievement Award.