Contact details
Westminster
House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 3174
Biography
Lords career
First entered House of Lords 1993;
Elected hereditary peer 1999-
Political interests
International affairs
Countries of interest
Central Asia
Register of Interests
1: Directorships
Director, Endgame Algarve – Unipessoal Lda (part of the income and expenses from CCC group of Companies (see category 2) is paid to Endgame Algarve - Unipessoal Lda)
Director, Kazsupplychain LLP
Director, Kazindustry LLP
2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
Adviser to the Chairman (local content development; major oil and gas projects) Kazmunaigaz, Kazakhstan
Adviser to the Chairman of the Board (Strategic development), The CCC Group of Companies (heavy civil and mechanical construction; upstream oil and gas; mining)
4: Shareholdings (a)
Endgame Algarve – Unipessoal Lda
Kazsupplychain LLP
Kazindustry LLP
5: Land and property
3 Houses in Portugal, from which rental income is received from one; rental income is paid to Endgame Algarve – Unipessoal Lda (see category 1) which in turn meets the running costs of all the houses
7: Overseas visits
Visit to Kazakhstan, 9-13 October 2011, to attend a Kazakhstan non-proliferation conference; costs of flight and hotel met by Foreign Ministry of Kazakhstan
Visit to Kazakhstan, 13-17 January 2012, to be briefed on the events of December 16th 2011 and the aftermath in Zhanaozen and to review the security situation for the holding of parliamentary elections there; flight and hotel costs met by Foreign Ministry of Kazakhstan
Visit to Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, 17-20 May 2012, to attend 20 years of the Constitution of Turkmenistan: historical experience in building a sovereign state Conference; flight and hotel costs met by Government of Turkmenistan
Visit to Astana and Semipalintinsk, Kazakhstan, 25-28 August 2012, to be briefed and visit the nuclear testing site; flights and costs met by Government of Kazakhstan
10: Non-financial interests (a)
Creator and Joint copyright holder of a web-based project entitled Parliament Revealed
10: Non-financial interests (d)
Chairman of the following individual country All-Party Political Groups: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan; and of the Central Asia All-Party Political Group; also Co-chairman of the Mongolia All-Party Political Group and Vice Chairman of the Afghanistan All-Party Political Group (this interest is recorded in the All-Party Groups Register and is repeated here for the purpose of disclosure of relevant interests when tabling questions for written answer)
Chairman, New Silk Road Forum (a forum to promote dialogue and interaction between governments, industry leaders and the professions)
Instigator, Kazsupplychain, Kazakhstan (Objective: the strengthening of Kazakhstan's professional skills and industrial base; and to consider current challenges and forthcoming opportunities for the creation of new jobs in Western Kazakhstan)
10: Non-financial interests (e)
Vice Chairman, Britain-Azerbaijan Business Council
Co-Chairman, International Tax and Investment Centre (ITIC) (an independent, non-profit making, research and education foundation assisting governments and their tax authorities in transition to market-oriented policies)
Global Infrastructure Funding and Financing (non-profit making bureau of independent professionals in international banking, law, engineering and surveying transactions)