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Lord Powell of Bayswater was Private Secretary and advisor on foreign affairs and defense to British Prime Ministers Lady Margaret Thatcher and John Major from 1983 to 1991. He is currently Chairman of Safinvest limited and LVMH (UK). From 1992 until the end of 2000 served as a member of the Board of Jardine Matheson Holdings, Ltd. and associated companies and from the end of 2000 until December 2005 served as the non-executive Chairman of Sagitta Asset Management. He is President of the China-Britain Business Council, Chairman of the Trustees of the Oxford University Business School, Chairman of Atlantic Partnership, a Trustee of the British Museum and a Trustee of the Aspen Institute. He is a director of Louis-Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LVMH), Caterpillar Inc., Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, Yell Group, British Mediterranean Airways and Schindler Corporation. He is a member of the Upper House of the British Parliament and Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Entrepreneurship. | 