Contact details
Westminster
House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 5353
Biography
Lords career
Commercial Secretary and Government Spokesperson, HM Treasury 2010-13
Countries of interest
The UK's major trading partners and inward/outward investors
Name, style and title
Raised to the peerage as Baron Sassoon, of Ashley Park in the County of Surrey 2010
Register of Interests
1: Directorships
Jardine Matheson Holdings (diversified holding company with mainly Asian interests)
Matheson & Co (London subsidiary of Jardine Matheson Holdings)
Hongkong Land Holdings (Asian property; director's fees ceded to Jardine Matheson and not personally received by Lord Sassoon)
Dairy Farm International Holdings (Asian food retailing; director's fees ceded to Jardine Matheson and not personally received by Lord Sassoon)
Mandarin Oriental International (hotels; director's fees ceded to Jardine Matheson and not personally received by Lord Sassoon)
2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
Fellow, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (non-practising)
Former Member of Lloyd's (resigned)
4: Shareholdings (b)
Abbott Laboratories (healthcare)
AbbVie Inc (pharmaceuticals)
ANZ Banking Group Ltd (banking)
Argo Investments Ltd (Australian investment company)
Aviva plc (insurance)
BAE Systems plc (aerospace and defence)
Bank of Montreal (banking)
Bank of Nova Scotia (banking)
BCE Inc (communications)
BHP Billiton (mining)
Brambles Ltd (pallets and logistics)
British American Tobacco plc (tobacco)
British Assets Trust plc (global investment company)
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (banking)
Chevron Corp (oil and gas)
ConocoPhillips (oil and gas)
Devon Energy (oil and gas)
Diebold Inc (security systems)
Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust (UK investment company)
Emerson Electric Co (industrial manufacturing and technology)
Experian plc (support services)
GlaxoSmithKline plc (pharmaceutical)
Honeywell International Inc (technology manufacturing)
International Business Machines Corp (information technology)
IMI plc (industrial engineering)
Ingersoll-Rand plc (engineering and manufacturing)
ITT Corp (technology manufacturing)
Johnson & Johnson (medical and consumer products)
Kimberly-Clark Corp (personal and healthcare products)
Marston's plc (brewing and pub retailing)
Merchants Trust plc (UK investment company)
Morgan Crucible co plc (advanced materials)
Pitney Bowes Inc (mail equipment and solutions)
Raytheon Co (defence and aerospace)
Rio Tinto plc (mining)
Royal Dutch Shell plc (oil and gas)
Standard Chartered plc (banking)
Unilever plc (food and household products)
Wincanton plc (industrial transportation)
Xylem Inc (water technology)
7: Overseas visits
Visit to Beijing and Tianjin, 12-18 January 2013, for Sixth UK-China Leadership for the Future Forum (meeting of UK parliamentarians with senior members of Communist Party of China); travel costs met by Barclays, BP and Rolls Royce; accommodation costs met by Communist Party of China