Baroness Lindsay Northover

Parliament/Organisation
United Kingdom
Party
Liberal Democrats
Baroness Lindsay Northover posing for a picture

Baroness Lindsay Northover has been a longstanding advocate for international development and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), working on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 2000s, and then serving as a Minister in the Department for International Development from 2010-15. As UK Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development (2014-15), she championed global health, women’s rights, efforts to end female genital mutilation and the right to treatment when women have been raped in conflict. She is very active in the UK’s All Party Parliamentary Group on Global Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. She serves on the Council of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and is an Invited Honorary Professor at Imperial College’s Institute of Global Health Innovation. She serves as Treasurer on the Executive Committee of Alphea, supporting parliamentary action to advance SRHR across Europe and globally.