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Baroness Bonham-Carter

Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for DCMS in the Lords

Jane Bonham-Carter is a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords where she is the party's spokesperson for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport.

Her original career was in television, first in New York working for NBC. On returning to the UK she joined the BBC where she worked on Panorama and Newsnight, among other programmes. She moved to Channel 4 and was Programme Editor of A Week In Politics. In 1996 she became the Liberal Democrats' Director of Communications, a role she held through the 1997 election before returning to a career in television. She was a Visiting Parliamentary Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford, 2013-2014.

Jane was HMG Cultural & Trade Envoy to Mexico from 2013-2020. Jane was also on the Board of the National Campaign for the Arts from 2010-2012, and has been a trustee of The Lowry since 2011, and of One Dance UK since 2020.

She has been a patron of the Studio Theatre, Salisbury since April 2015. She is a Regional Champion of the South West of England for the British Museum, and on the advisory board of Messums Wiltshire, a pioneering multi-purpose gallery and arts centre. Jane is also on the Steering Group of the Marie Colvin Journalists' Network.

Jane Bonham-Carter - Baroness Bonham-Carter, Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for DCMS in the Lords