The Rt Hon Lord Tugendhat

Foretitle(s): Baron (Life Peer UK 1993), of Widdington in the County of Essex; Sir
Surname: TUGENDHAT
Style: The Rt Hon Lord Tugendhat
Recreations: conversation, reading, being with my family

Career: leader and feature writer Financial Times 1960-70; MP (Cons): Cities of London and Westminster 1970-74, City of London and Westminster South 1974-76; Br EEC cmmr (responsible for budget, fin control, personnel and admin) 1977-81, vice-pres Cmmn of Euro Communities (responsible for budget, fin control, fin insts and taxation) 1981-85; chm: CAA 1986-91, Royal Inst of Int Affrs Chatham House 1986-95, Abbey National plc 1991-2002, Blue Circle Industries plc 1996-2001; non-exec chm European Advsy Bd Lehman Brothers Europe 2002-07; dep chm Nat Westminster Bank 1990-91 (dir 1985-91); non-exec dir: The BOC Group plc 1985-96, Commercial Union Assurance Co plc 1988-91, LWT (Holdings) plc 1991-94, Eurotunnel plc 1991-2003, Rio Tinto plc (formerly RTZ Corporation plc) 1997-2004; chllr Univ of Bath 1998-; chair Imperial Coll Healthcare NHS Tst 2007-; hon fell Gonville & Caius Coll Cambridge 1998; Hon LLD Univ of Bath 1998, Hon DLitt UMIST 2002

Books and Publications: books incl: Oil: The Biggest Business (1968), The Multinationals (1971), Making Sense of Europe (1986), Options for British Foreign Policy in the 1990's (with William Wallace, 1988); pamphlets incl: Britain, Europe and the Third World (1976), Conservatives in Europe (1979), Is Reform Possible? (1981)