Veronica Wadley, Baroness Fleet

The Baroness Fleet
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
8 October 2020
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born
Veronica Judith Colleton Wadley

(1952-02-28) 28 February 1952 (age 72)
Chelsea, London, England
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
Political partyConservative
Spouse
(m. 1985)
Children2

Veronica Judith Colleton Wadley, Baroness Fleet, CBE (born 28 February 1952) is a board member of Arts Council England (2010–present). She is a director and trustee of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. She was a senior advisor to the former Mayor of London, Boris Johnson (2012–2016) and the co-founder and chairman of the London Music Fund (formerly the Mayor's Fund for Young Musicians), where she remains a Trustee & Chair. She is also a non-executive director of the Berkeley Group and an independent Director of Times Newspapers Holdings.

Prior to this, she was the editor of the Evening Standard (2002–2009) and previously deputy editor of The Daily Telegraph.