Lord William Waldegrave
Lord Waldegrave was a former Health Minister and combined with his experience in the City running some of the top financial organisations he has a unique insight into the health service and the way global businesses need to operate to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment.
Area of Specialisation
Lord Waldegrave specialises in health and the associated regulatory issue and corporate governance.
Client Organisations
At the Department of the Environment, he was credited with revitalising British environmental policy; he also had responsibility for housing, planning and local government. As Minister of State in the Foreign Commonwealth Office in the critical years of 88-90, he was intimately concerned with policy in eastern and central Europe and the former USSR, with the Middle East and the Arab-Israel conflict, with South Africa and with arms control.
Before election as an MP in 1979, he gained industrial and commercial experience at G.E.C. Gas Turbines Ltd and in Lord Weinstock’s office. As a civil servant in the Cabinet Office, he worked in the CPRS (`The Think Tank’) under Lord Rothschild before moving to 10 Downing Street to work for the Prime Minister, Mr Heath.
Career Background
Lord Waldegrave’s ministerial experience, amongst the dozen or so longest continuous such periods this century, gives him exceptionally wide experience of British Government, including the two central Departments of Treasury and Foreign Office.
As Secretary of State for Health, he was responsible for a budget of around £30 billion, the employment of a million people and the introduction of radical organisational changes. As Minister for Science and Technology, he established new mechanisms for co-operation between the science base and industry. As Minister for Public Service, he introduced a White Paper establishing the principles of a reformed Civil Service.
Lord Waldegrave was Managing Director of Dredsner Kleinwort (1998-2003) and then Managing Director and Vice Chairman of UBS (2003-2008).
He was Member of Parliament (Conservative) representing Bristol West 1979-97. He was Cabinet Minister for the British Government 1990-97; (Secretary of State for Health, 1990-92; Minister for public Service, Science and Technology 1992-94; Agriculture 1994-95; Chief Secretary, Treasury 1995-97). Previous non-Cabinet service as Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1988-90; Minister of State, Department of the Environment 1985-88; Junior Minister, Environment 1983-85; Junior Minister, Education and Science 1981-83.
Qualifications and Publications
An Oxford graduate, he has been a Prize Fellow, Fifty Pound Fellow & Two-Year Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Hon Fellow of Corpus Christi College.
He is the author of ”The Binding of Leviathan – Conservatism and the Future” and of many pamphlets, articles and book reviews.
