The Rt Hon The Lord Fraser of Carmyllie QC

Peter Fraser born in 1945.
Family: Married to Lady Fiona Fraser, M.Sc.
Children Jane, Jamie and Katie

Education: Loretto School, Musselburgh and BA (Hons) and LLM (Hons), Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, before going to Edinburgh University.

Career: He was called to the Scottish Bar in 1969 and in 1972 he lectured part-time in constitutional law at Heriot-Watt University for two years. In 1979 he was appointed Standing Junior Counsel for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and became a Queen’s Counsel in 1982.

Politics: Conservative MP for Angus from 1979 until June 1987. Parliamentary Private Secretary to George Younger, Secretary of State for Scotland.
Appointed Solicitor-General for Scotland by Margaret Thatcher in 1982 and became Lord Advocate in 1989, when he was made a life peer and a member of the Privy Council.
As Lord Advocate, he had ultimate responsibility for the Pan Am 103 Lockerbie investigation. He has appeared for the United Kingdom in both the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg and the Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
Minister of State at the Scottish Office covering Home Affairs and Health from 1992 to 1995.

Minister of State at the Department of Trade and Industry from 1992 to 1995 he was with a responsibility for exports, promotion and overseas investment with particular emphasis on the oil and gas industry. In 1996 he became Minister for Energy.

Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Lords until December 1998.

Business: Non-executive director of Total, a director of the International Petroleum Exchange and a director of the London Metal Exchange.
Chairman of JKX Oil and Gas plc and a director of Alkane Energy. He is a director of Carnoustie Golf Course Hotel. In December 2000, Lord Fraser was elected Honorary President of The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

He is chairman of the Anglo-Azeri Society and a deputy chairman of the All Party Kazakhstan Group.

He has been an Honorary Visiting Professor of Law at Dundee University and is an Honorary Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn, London.

He was recently appointed independent Chairman of the Statutory Committee of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.