Baroness Shriti Vadera, Warwick Economics Summit

Baroness Shriti Vadera worked for 14 years at the Investment Bank UBS Warburg, where she was advising governments of developing countries. In 2007 she was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for International Development by Gordon Brown. After just 6 months she moved to the Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and became Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office in 2008. Since December 2010, she is a member of the Boards of BHP Billiton and AstraZeneca as a Non-Executive Director.