Simone Finn, Baroness Finn

The Baroness Finn
Official portrait, 2024
Downing Street Chief of Staff
De facto
5 July 2022 – 6 September 2022
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded bySteve Barclay
Succeeded byMark Fullbrook
Downing Street Deputy Chief of Staff
In office
13 February 2021 – 6 September 2022
Serving with Ben Gascoigne (2021–2022)
David Canzini (2022)
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded by
  • Henry Cook
  • Katie Lam
Succeeded byRuth Porter
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
30 November 2015
Life peerage
Personal details
Born (1968-06-10) 10 June 1968 (age 56)
United States
NationalityBritish
Political partyConservative
SpouseAlex Finn
Children2
Alma materLady Margaret Hall, Oxford

Simone Jari Finn, Baroness Finn (née Kubes; born 10 June 1968) is a businesswoman and British-American Conservative politician who served as Downing Street Deputy Chief of Staff from February 2021 until the end of the second Johnson Ministry.

A member of the House of Lords since 2015, she is a former government adviser on industrial relations, efficiency and civil service reform. She co-founded Francis Maude Associates, a consultancy firm specialising in government efficiency. She was appointed a non-executive board member for the Cabinet Office in May 2020.