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Lord Gilbert was appointed as a director in November 2003. Lord Gilbert served as U.K. Minister of State for Defense Procurement from 1997-99 and is a member of the House of Lords and the Privy Council. He first entered Parliament in 1970 and served as Financial Secretary to the Treasury (1974-75) Minister for Transport (1975-76) and Minister of State for Defense (1976-79). During the Conservative government he was Senior Opposition member of the Select Committees on Defense and Trade and Industry and the Committee on Intelligence & Security. A Chartered Accountant Lord Gilbert was educated at St. John's College Oxford and New York University where he earned a Ph.D. in International Economics. His early career included work with Price Waterhouse and Canadian Business Services Toronto and as Assistant Vice President Business Development at the Bank of America International in New York. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society and a member of the Trilateral Commission and he has served several companies on both sides of the Atlantic as an advisor and board member. | 