The Baroness Fleet | |
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Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
Assumed office 8 October 2020 Life Peerage | |
Personal details | |
Born | Veronica Judith Colleton Wadley 28 February 1952 Chelsea, London, England |
Citizenship | United Kingdom |
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse | |
Children | 2 |
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.