Timothy Francis Clement-Jones, Baron Clement-Jones, (born 26October 1949) is a

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peer and spokesman for the

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in the

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Career

Clement-Jones is a consultant of the multinational law firm

DLA Piper DLA Piper is a law firm with offices in over 40 countries across the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. It was founded in 2005 through the merger between three law firms: San Diego–based ''Gray Cary Ware & Freiden ...

, and formerly held positions as London managing partner (2011–2016), head of UK government affairs, chairman of its China and Middle East Desks, international business relations partner, and co-chairman of global government relations. Clement-Jones held senior legal positions at

London Weekend Television London Weekend Television (LWT; now part of the non-franchised ITV London region) was the ITV (TV network), ITV network franchise holder for Greater London and the Home Counties at weekends, broadcasting from Fridays at 5.15 pm (7:00&nbs ...

(now part of

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, 1980–1983) and

Grand Metropolitan Grand Metropolitan plc was a leisure, manufacturing and property conglomerate headquartered in England. The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index until it merged with Guinness plc to form ...

(now

Diageo Diageo plc ( ) is a British Multinational corporation, multinational alcoholic beverage company, with its headquarters in London, England. It is a major distributor of Scotch whisky and other spirits and operates from 132 sites around the world ...

plc, 1984–1986). He was group company secretary and legal adviser of

Kingfisher plc Kingfisher plc is a British Multinational corporation, multinational retailing company headquartered in London, England. It has over 1,300 stores in nine countries, and its brands include B&Q, Castorama, Brico Dépôt and Screwfix. Kingfisher i ...

from 1986 until 1995, where he coordinated Kingfisher's contribution to the Shopping Hours Reform Campaign which led to the

Sunday Trading Act 1994 The Sunday Trading Act 1994 (c. 20) is an Act of Parliament (UK), act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom governing the right of Retailing, shops in England and Wales to trade on a Sunday. Buying and selling on Sunday had previously been ille ...

. From 1996 to 1999, he was director of Political Context, a political communications consultancy. Clement-Jones was a non-executive chairman of the environmental strategy and communications consultancy Context Group from 1997 to 2005. Clement-Jones has served as a member of the following organizations: * Ombudsman Services Limited – chair * Association of Insurance and Risk Managers in Industry and Commerce (Airmic) – advisory board member *

Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) is a professional membership organisation that promotes, develops and supports chartered accountants and students around the world. As of December 2024, it has over 210,000 memb ...

(ICAEW) – Corporate Finance Faculty board member * Saudi British Joint Business Council – member *

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– Law Society Ambassador * 48 Group Club – Icebreaker Fellow and vice president

Political career

Clement-Jones was chairman of the Association of Liberal Lawyers from 1982 to 1986, and then of the Liberal Party from 1986 to 1988. He played a major part in the merger with the

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to form the Liberal Democrats. He was made

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for political services in 1988. He was the chairman of the Liberal Democrats Finance Committee from 1989 to 1998 and federal treasurer of the Liberal Democrats from 2005 to 2010. Clement-Jones was made a

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taking the title Baron Clement-Jones, of

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in the

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on 17July 1998 and until July 2004 was the Liberal Democrat health spokesman, and thereafter until 2010 Liberal Democrat spokesman on culture, media and sport, in the

. Since 2012, he has been the chair of Lib Dems in Communications. He is the Liberal Democrat spokesman for the digital economy and a former spokesman on the creative industries (2015–2017). He was a member of the Select Committees on Communications (2011–2015) and the Built Environment (2015–2016). From 2017 to 2018 he was chair of the House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence. He is co-chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence. He is deputy chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on China and vice chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Groups for Iraqi-Kurdistan, Ovarian Cancer, Publishing, Writers and Intellectual Property. He introduced and ensured the passage through the House of Lords of the 2003 Tobacco and Advertising and Sponsorship Act and the Live Music Act 2012.

Other associations

He is honorary president of Ambitious about Autism (formerly Treehouse), an

autism Autism, also known as autism spectrum disorder (ASD), is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by differences or difficulties in social communication and interaction, a preference for predictability and routine, sensory processing d ...

education charity and school for children with autism and other communication disorders, and its former chairman (2001–2008). Until its merger with

Macmillan Cancer Support Macmillan Cancer Support is one of the largest British charities and provides specialist health care, information and financial support to people affected by cancer. It also looks at the social, emotional and practical impact cancer can have, an ...

in 2008, he was a trustee of Cancerbackup, the UK cancer information charity founded by his late wife, Vicky Clement-Jones. Clement Jones has also served in the following positions: * Council chair,

Queen Mary University of London Queen Mary University of London (QMUL, or informally QM, and formerly Queen Mary and Westfield College) is a public university, public research university in Mile End, East London, England. It is a member institution of the federal University ...

* Council chair, School of Pharmacy, University of London (2008–2012) * External council member,

University College London University College London (Trade name, branded as UCL) is a Public university, public research university in London, England. It is a Member institutions of the University of London, member institution of the Federal university, federal Uni ...

* Chair of audit committee, University College London (2012–2017) * Advisory board member,

UCL Medical School UCL Medical School is the medical school of University College London (UCL), a public research university in London, England. The school provides a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate medical education programmes and also has a medical ...

* Fellow, UCL School of Pharmacy * Council member, Heart of the City * Fellow,

Public Relations Consultants Association The Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) is a trade association for the public relations sector in the United Kingdom. The association lobbies on behalf of its member companies and also provides a forum for sharing information. ...

* Honorary fellow,

Chartered Institute of Public Relations The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) is a professional body in the United Kingdom for public relations practitioners. Founded as the Institute for Public Relations in 1948, CIPR was awarded Chartered status by the Privy Council of ...

* Governor,

Haileybury and Imperial Service College Haileybury is a co-educational public school (fee-charging boarding and day school for 11- to 18-year-olds) located in Hertford Heath, Hertfordshire. It is a member of the Rugby Group and enrols pupils at the 11+, 13+ and 16+ stages of edu ...

* Ambassador, Barts Charity * Trustee, Barbican Centre Trust (2012–2016) * Chair, Crime Concern (1991–1995)

Personal life

He is the son of Maurice Llewelyn Clement-Jones and (Margaret) Jean, née Hudson. He received his education at

and

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any ...

(economics). In 1973, he married Vicky Veronica Yip, who died in 1987. He married Jean Roberta Whiteside in 1994.

Arms

References

External links

Lord Clement-Jones
at the

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