Articles with Coward Chance 1972-74. Associate with Joynson-Hicks 1974-76. Corporate Lawyer Letraset Limited 1976-1980. Head of Legal Affairs London Weekend Television 1980-84. Legal Director Retailing Grand Metropolitan plc. Group Company Secretary and Legal Adviser Kingfisher plc 1986-1995. Chairman DLA Upstream 1999-2004. Co-Chairman Global Government Relations DLA Piper 2005-2009. London Managing Partner DLA Piper 2010-16. Consultant with DLA Piper 20018-.
Chairman Association of Liberal Lawyers 1978-1984. Chairman Liberal Party1986-1988. Created Life Peer 1998 as Lord Clement-Jones of Clapham. Liberal Democrat Health Spokesman in the House of Lords 1998-2004. DCMS Spokesman 2004-2010. Digital Economy Spokesperson 2015-23. Lib Dem Lords Science Innovation and Technology Spokesperson 2023-Chairman of Federal Finance Committee of Liberal Democrats 1990-1998. Federal Treasurer 2005-10. Mentioned in Paddy Ashdown's Diaries, Martin Bell's "An Accidental MP" and "Birth Life and Death of the SDP" by Ivor Crewe and Anthony King.
Vice Chairman All Party Parliamentary China Group 2005-. Vice Chairman All Party Parliamentary Autism Group 2002-10. Chairman Crime Concern 1990-1995. Chairman Treehouse 2003-8. Hon President Ambitious About Autism 2012-. Chairman Lambeth Crime Prevention Trust 2004-10. Chairman School of Pharmacy University of London 2008-11. Member of Council of University College London 2012-2017. Chair of Council Queen Mary University of London 2017-. Chairman of the Board of Ombudsman Services (now renamed Trust Alliance Group) 2016-
Sponsored and steered the Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Act 2002 and the Live Music Act 2012 as private members bills through the House of Lords.
Chair of the House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence (2017-18) Member of the Select Committees on Communications (2011-2105). Member Select Committee on Risk Asserssment and Risk Planning 2020-21. Member Industry and Regulator’s Committee 2023- . Founder and Co-Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence 2016-. Deputy Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on China and Vice Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Groups on Publishing; Writers; and Intellectual Property. Founder member of the OECD Parliamentary Group on AI.
Author of “Living With the Algorithm: Servant or Master?
AI Governance and Policy for the Future”, published by Unicorn Publishing 2024. a compliation of his
family history ( A Clement-Jones Compendium)
66and editor of a number of collections of his father and grandfathers’ wartime letters.