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Biographical Information
David Howell - The Right Honorable Lord Howell of Guildford - is a former
Secretary of State for Energy and for Transport in the UK Government and an
economist and journalist. In the sixties he acted as policy adviser to Edward
Heath and was Director of the Conservative Political Centre. In the late
seventies he became head of Margaret Thatcher's speech-writing team. He served
as Minister of State in Northern Ireland, under William Whitelaw, from 1972 to
1974, at the height of the troubles. Until 2002 he was Chairman of the UK-Japan
21st Century Group, (the high level bilateral forum between leading UK and
Japanese politicians, industrialists and academics), which was first set up by
Margaret Thatcher and Yasuhiro Nakasone in 1984. In addition he writes a
fortnightly column for The JAPAN TIMES in Tokyo, and has done so since 1985. He
does occasional columns for the International Herald Tribune.
David Howell was for ten years the Chairman of the House of Commons Select
Committee on Foreign Affairs, 1987-97. He was Chairman of the House of Lords
European Sub-Committee on Common Foreign and Security Policy from 1999-2000 and
is now the Conservative Party official Foreign Policy Spokesman in the House of
Lords . He is President of the British Institute of Energy Economists. He is a
Trustee and Board Member of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and was from 1998-2001 a
Governor of Sadlers Wells Ballet. In 2001 he was awarded the Grand Cordon of the
Order of the Sacred Treasure (Japan).
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