Peter Ricketts
The Lord Ricketts Life Peerage | |
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Born | Peter Forbes Ricketts 30 September 1952 Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, England, UK |
Nationality | British |
Spouse | Suzanne Ricketts |
Children | 2 |
Education | Bishop Vesey's Grammar School |
Alma mater | Pembroke College, Oxford |
Occupation | Diplomat |
Peter Forbes Ricketts, Baron Ricketts,
Ricketts served as chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) under Prime Minister Tony Blair. He was the UK government's first national security adviser from 2010 from 2012, serving under Prime Minister David Cameron.
Personal life
Ricketts attended Bishop Vesey's Grammar School, Sutton Coldfield, and Pembroke College, Oxford, where he read English Literature. He married Suzanne Horlington; they have two adult children.[2]
Diplomatic career
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Ricketts began his career in the
. Apart from Brussels, he has been posted to Singapore, Washington DC and Paris.He served under Prime Minister
He served under Prime Minister
In January 2016, he stepped down as the UK Ambassador to France and retired from the
Public life
He was nominated for a life peerage in the 2016 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours and was created Baron Ricketts, of Shortlands in the County of Kent, on 17 October.[6][7] He now sits as a crossbencher.
Between 2016 and January 2022 he was a Strategic Adviser to Lockheed Martin UK.[8]
In October 2020 a cross-party group of MPs and peers, backed by Lord Ricketts, planned to take legal action against Prime Minister Boris Johnson over his government's refusal to order an inquiry into Russian interference in UK elections. The move followed the publication in July 2020 of the Russia report by parliament's intelligence and security committee (ISC), which found that the government and its intelligence services had failed to investigate Kremlin meddling in the 2016 EU referendum vote. The high court claim named Prime Minister Johnson as defendant.[9]
In April 2022, Ricketts called Marine Le Pen's proposal for a Franco-British defence cooperation treaty "ignorant and dangerous."[10]
Honours
He was appointed CMG in the 1999 Birthday Honours,
See also
References
- ^ Foreign Policy in an Era of Globalisation. Institute of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations. Thursday 15 2009.
- ISBN 0-7136-5432-5. Accessed 2 August 2016.
- ^ "Iraq inquiry told of 'clear' threat from Saddam Hussein". BBC News. BBC. 24 November 2009. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
- ^ "Senior Diplomatic Appointments". Number 10. 24 June 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
- ^ "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to France". Foreign & Commonwealth Office. 18 December 2015.
- ^ "Resignation Peerages 2016" (PDF).
- ^ "No. 61738". The London Gazette. 21 October 2016. p. 22392.
- ^ "Summary of business appointments applications - Sir Peter Ricketts".
- ^ Harding, Luke (29 October 2020). "Legal action taken against PM over refusal to investigate Kremlin meddling". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
- ^ Wintour, Patrick (13 April 2022). "Le Pen's plans for post-Brexit treaty 'ignorant and dangerous'". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
- ^ "No. 57100". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 October 2003. p. 10.
- ^ "No. 59647". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2010. p. 3.
- ^ "No. 60916". The London Gazette. 27 June 2014. p. 12742.
External links
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