James Arbuthnot

Lord Arbuthnot
Lord Arbuthnot ; (politician, businessman);
Born	1952-08-04; Deal, Kent, England
Alma mater	Trinity College (Cambridge), Inns of Court
Children	4
Spouse	Emma Arbuthnot
Member of	Conservative Friends of Israel, European Leadership Network, Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies
Party	Conservative
	Chair
In office
	5 December 2016 - Present
Employer	Thales UK
	Chairman of the Defence Select Committee
In office
	13 July 2005 - 14 May 2014
	Shadow Secretary of State for Trade
In office
	6 November 2003 - 6 May 2005
Succeeded by	David Willetts
	Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Commons
In office
	23 June 1997 - 18 September 2001
	Minister of State for Defence Procurement
In office
	6 July 1995 - 2 May 1997
	Member of Parliament for North East Hampshire
In office
	1 May 1997 - 30 March 2015
	Member of Parliament for Wanstead and Woodford
In office
	11 June 1987 - 8 April 1997
Preceded by	Clement Freud, Mike Hancock, Patrick Jenkin, Roy Jenkins, Norman St John-Stevas, Enoch Powell, Nick Raynsford, Geoffrey Rippon
	Member of the House of Lords
In office
	1 October 2015 - Present

James Norwich Arbuthnot, Baron Arbuthnot of Edrom, PC is a British Conservative Party politician. He was returned as Member of Parliament (MP) for Wanstead and Woodford from 1987 to 1997, and then MP for North East Hampshire from 1997 to 2015.

Arbuthnot served as Chairman of the Defence Select Committee from 2005 to 2014,^[1] before being nominated as a Life Peer in the Dissolution Peerages List 2015 of August 2015.^[2]

Career

James Arbuthnot was a director of SC Strategy Ltd, together with former MI6 chief John Scarlett and Alexander Carlile.^[3]

In December 2016, Lord Arbuthnot was appointed Chair of Thales UK advisory board.^[4]