Lord Skidelsky

Robert Skidelsky

Robert Skidelsky

Party

Crossbench

Address as

Lord Skidelsky

Contact details

Westminster

House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 8721
skidelskyr@parliament.uk

Biography

Lords career

Opposition Spokesperson for: Culture, Media and Sport 1997-98, the Treasury 1998-99

Councils, public bodies

Member: Lord Chancellor's Advisory Council on Public Records 1987-92, School Examinations and Assessment Council 1992-93; Governor, Portsmouth University 1994-97; Brighton College: Governor 1998-, Chair 2004-; Governor, Moscow School of Political Studies 1999-; Founder member, World Political Forum 2002-; Member, Academic Council, Wilton Park 2002-09

International bodies

Member, Inter-Parliamentary Union

Political interests

Education, economic policy, Europe, transition economies, arts

Countries of interest

China, Russia

Name, style and title

Raised to the peerage as Baron Skidelsky, of Tilton in the County of East Sussex 1991

Register of Interests

1: Directorships

Non-executive Director, Rusnano Capital AG (investment in Russia)

2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.

Journalism and articles for the New Statesman

Journalism and articles for the Guardian

Journalism and articles for the Financial Times

Speaking engagement, 10-12 October 2011, Baku International Humanitarian Forum

Speaking engagement, 13 October 2011, Citywire Wealth Management Retreat

Speaking engagement, 17 November 2011, Sanford and Bernstein Conference

Speaking engagement, 21 March 2012, AREA Property Partners

Speaking engagement, 23-25 March 2012, IISS Geo-economics Seminar

TV interview, 13 April 2012, for KBNe-UK/EBS documentary, ‘Capitalism’

Week in residence at Cornell University, 15-20 April 2012, as Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large

Speaking engagement, 2 May 2012, Institutional Investor Global Sovereign Funds Round Table

Speaking engagement, 8 June 2012, Dexia Asset Management Round Table

Speaking engagement, 4-5 October 2012, Baku International Humanitarian Forum

4: Shareholdings (b)

Janus Capital Group (fund management)

4: Shareholdings (a)

Transnational Insights Ltd (100 per cent of stock)

5: Land and property

Residential property in London SW9 from which rental income is received

10: Non-financial interests (b)

Chairman, Governing Body, Brighton College

Member of Council, Royal Economic Society

Director, Moscow School of Political Studies

10: Non-financial interests (e)

Trustee, Daedalus Trust

Chairman, Centre for Global Studies