Jo Valentine, Baroness Valentine
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Josephine Clare Valentine, Baroness Valentine, known as Jo Valentine (born December 8, 1958) is a British politician.
Valentine sits on the boards of several organisations in the United Kingdom. She is chief executive of London First, was on the National Lottery Commission until September 2005. In 2005 she was recommended by the House of Lords Appointments Commission to be made a life peer, and is now known as Baroness Valentine, of Putney in the London Borough of Wandsworth.
Baroness Valentine joined London First in 1997 as Managing Director, becoming Chief Executive in 2003. Her role centres on representing to national and local government the most pressing issues affecting London’s leading businesses. London First’s mission is to make London the best place in the world in which to do business. Its members include leading retailers, investment banks and property companies.
Prior to London First, Jo Valentine worked in corporate finance and planning at Barings and BOC Group. She established and ran ‘The Blackburn Partnership’ a public-private regeneration partnership in 1988 and the Central London Partnership (CLP) in 1995.
Baroness Valentine is an Honorary Fellow of St Hugh’s College Oxford, a board member of the New West End Company and of inward investment agency Think London and a trustee of Teach First.
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- Announcement of her introduction at the House of Lords House of Lords minutes of proceedings, 25 October 2005
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