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Lord Willetts

The Rt Hon. the Lord Willetts

ConservativeLife PeerM

Life peer

Party / group
Conservative
Peerage type
Life Peer
Membership
current
Member since
15 Oct 2015
Introduced
-
Membership end
Current

Registered Interests (24)

Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.

Speaking engagement, 13 October 2025, Association of Financial Mutuals (fee donated to the Resolution Foundation)

Registered: 17 Nov 2025

Category 6: Gifts, benefits and hospitality

Attended Goodwood Festival of Speed as guest of the Duke of Richmond, 11–13 July 2025

Registered: 21 Jul 2025

Category 6: Gifts, benefits and hospitality

Attended Ecole Polytechnique Ball, 16 May 2025, Paris (guest of OHB)

Registered: 19 May 2025

Category 6: Gifts, benefits and hospitality

Visit to California, 5-8 May 2025, to attend the SynBioBeta conference; flights and accommodation costs paid by SynBiCITE, a Synthetic Biology centre at Imperial College, London.

Registered: 12 May 2025

Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.

Chair, Regulatory Innovation Office, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT)

Registered: 11 Mar 2025

Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.

Chair, Gen IP (company assessing value of new technologies)

Registered: 1 Oct 2024

Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.

Non-executive Director, SatixFy Communications Ltd (parent company of SatixFy UK; communications technology company) (interest ceased 3 July 2025)

Registered: 4 Apr 2024

Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.

Strategic Adviser, HighTide (pharmaceutical company) (remunerated via contract with Thames Holdings Ltd)

Registered: 29 Nov 2023

Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)

SynBioVen Limited

Registered: 25 May 2023

Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.

Chair, UK Space Agency Board

Registered: 28 Apr 2022

Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.

Non-executive Director, SatixFy UK (communications technology company) (interest ceased 3 July 2025)

Registered: 3 Sept 2020

Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.

Non-executive Director, Tekcapital plc (investment group focused on creating market value from technologies) (member has share options)

Registered: 30 Jun 2020

Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.

Director, Thames Holdings Ltd (promoting education and life sciences links with China)

Registered: 4 Dec 2019

Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.

Member, Advisory Board of Open Classrooms (education technology) (member has share options) (interest ceased 17 May 2025)

Registered: 24 Jul 2019

Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)

Sirius Constellation Limited

Registered: 8 Nov 2018

Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (a)

Marchmount Executive Services Limited (100 per cent owner: see category 1)

Registered: 2 Dec 2015

Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.

In receipt of royalties from writing books

Registered: 1 Dec 2015

Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)

Vantix Diagnostics Inc (formerly Vantix Limited) (company developing biosensors)

Registered: 1 Dec 2015

Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.

Occasional lectures and presentations

Registered: 1 Dec 2015

Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.

Occasional journalism

Registered: 1 Dec 2015

Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.

Director and sole owner, Marchmount Executive Services Limited

Registered: 1 Dec 2015

Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.

Visiting Professor, King’s College, London

Registered: 1 Dec 2015

Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.

President, The Resolution Foundation (think-tank)

Registered: 1 Dec 2015

Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.

Non-executive Director, The Biotech Growth Trust plc (venture capital fund investing in life sciences) (interest ceased 17 July 2025)

Registered: 1 Dec 2015

Source: UK Parliament API (Open Parliament Licence v3.0). See the official register record for Lord Willetts ↗.

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