Dame Lucy Neville-Rolfe DBE, CMG, FCIS Biography ______

Non-Executive President of Eurocommerce since July 2012, Lucy Neville-Rolfe began her retail career in 1997 when she joined Tesco as Group Director of Corporate Affairs. She went on to also become Company Secretary (2004-2006) before being appointed to the Tesco plc Board where she was Executive Director (Corporate and Legal Affairs) from 2006 to January 2013.

Lucy is a life peer and became a member of the UK House of Lords on 29 October 2013.

Before Tesco she worked in a number of UK Government departments, starting with the then Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, where she was private secretary to the Minister. She was a member of the UK Prime Minister’s Policy Unit from 1992 – 1994 where her responsibilities included home and legal affairs. She later became Director of the Deregulation Unit, first in the DTI and then the Cabinet Office from 1995 - 1997.

In 2013 Lady Neville-Rolfe was elected to the Supervisory Board of METRO AG. She is also a member of the UK India Business Advisory Council. She is a Non-Executive Director of ITV plc, and of 2 Sisters Food Group, a member of the PWC Advisory Board and a Governor of the London Business School. She is a former Vice– President of Eurocommerce and former Deputy Chairman of the British Retail Consortium

In 2012 she was made a DBE (Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in recognition of her services to industry and the voluntary sector. She was also awarded the CMG in 2005 after serving as a Non Executive Director on the Board of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In 2007 she won a European Women of Achievement Award.

Lucy was educated at Somerville College, Oxford, where she studied politics, philosophy and economics, and is now an Honorary Fellow. She is married with four sons.

April 2014