Baroness Stowell
chair, Communications & Digital Select Committee

Tina is a Conservative peer and the chair of the cross-party Communications & Digital Select Committee in the House of Lords. She is a former cabinet minister and was leader of the House of Lords until July 2016. Before joining the House of Lords after the 2010 General Election, she spent nine years at the BBC, where she was latterly head of corporate affairs. Before that she ran William Hague’s office when he was leader of the opposition. As a civil servant she worked at the Ministry of Defence in Whitehall, the British Embassy in Washington, and in the Downing Street Press Office during John Major’s premiership. She was chair of the Charity Commission from March 2018 until February 2021.

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