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. He advises major Japanese companies and the Kuwait
Investment Office.
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
Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Lords and Lords
Foreign Policy Spokesman. .
He is President of the British
Institute of Energy Economists and co-chair of the Windsor Energy Group. 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). His most recent book, 'Out
of the Energy Labyrinth' (co-authored with Dr. Carole Nakhle) will
be published by I.B.Tauris in May 2007.
