Neil Mendoza, Baron Mendoza

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The Right Honourable
The Lord Mendoza
File:Neil Mendoza 2020.jpg
Mendoza in 2020
Provost of Oriel College, Oxford
Assumed office
1 September 2018
Preceded by Moira Wallace
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
15 October 2020
Life peerage
Personal details
Born Neil Francis Jeremy Mendoza
(1959-11-02) 2 November 1959 (age 64)
London, England
Political party Conservative
Spouse(s) Amelia Wallace (m. 1993)
Children 2
Education Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School
Alma mater Oriel College, Oxford

Neil Francis Jeremy Mendoza, Baron Mendoza (born 2 November 1959) is a member of the House of Lords.[1][2] He has served as the Provost of Oriel College, Oxford, since September 2018,[3] as well as the UK Government's Commissioner for Cultural Recovery and Renewal since May 2020.[4]

Early life and education

Neil Francis Jeremy Mendoza was born on 2 November 1959 in London.[5] Mendoza was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Elstree, before going up to read geography at Oriel College, Oxford, matriculating in 1978.[citation needed] He was a founding member of the Piers Gaveston Society.[6]

Career

After periods in banking and film finance Mendoza co-founded Forward Publishing[7] with William Sieghart in 1986. Forward pioneered the Custom media business in the UK[8] and became one of the leading independent contract publishers. The company specialised in international and multilingual projects with corporate partners including IBM, Tesco and Patek Philippe & Co.[citation needed] Forward was sold to WPP plc.

Mendoza was appointed the UK Government's Commissioner for Cultural Recovery and Renewal in May 2020.[4]

During 2020 he played a leading role in the creation of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport £2 billion Culture Recovery Fund and is a member of its Board.[9]

He chairs the Culture and Heritage Capital Board.[10] He co-chaired a report, Boundless Creativity, for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.[11]

In 2016 Mendoza was appointed as a Commissioner of Historic England by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport,[12] before being appointed as a DCMS non-executive board member.[13]

In 2017 he published the Mendoza Review of Museums in England for the UK Government.[14] In the same year Mendoza was also the lead reviewer on the Strategic Review of DCMS-sponsored museums conducted under Cabinet Office guidelines.[15][16]

He is currently Chairman of The Illuminated River Foundation. He is a non-executive director of Meira GTx, a gene therapy company with research facilities in New York and London.[17] He is on the Board of Visitors for the Ashmolean Museum.[18]

In 2020, he was made an honorary fellow of Trinity College Dublin.[19]

Previously, Mendoza was Chairman of The Prince's Foundation for Children and The Arts, Vice Chair of Soho Theatre, on the board of the Almeida Theatre and the Shakespeare Schools Foundation. He was an independent trustee of The Daily Mail charity, Mail Force.[20]

Mendoza was appointed to the panel of The Taylor Review: Sustainability of English Churches and Cathedrals. He was a judge of the Laurence Olivier Awards for theatre for 2010 and 2011.[citation needed]

Mendoza was Chairman of the Landmark Trust, a UK historic building preservation charity, from 2011 to 2021.[21]

House of Lords

In July 2020, it was announced that Mendoza had been nominated for a life peerage by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.[22] On 16 September 2020, he was created a peer with the title Baron Mendoza, of King's Reach in the City of London.[23] He sits in the House of Lords as a Conservative Party peer,[24] and made his maiden speech on 10 November 2020.[25]

Personal life

Mendoza married Amelia Wallace in 1993. They have a son and a daughter.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "London's 1000 most influential people 2015", "Evening Standard", September 2015
  2. ↑ "London's 1000 most influential people 2017", "Evening Standard", October 2017
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Academic offices
Preceded by Provost of Oriel College, Oxford
1 September 2018 – present		 Incumbent
Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom
Preceded by Gentlemen
Baron Mendoza		 Followed by
The Lord Moore of Etchingham
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