The Baroness Wyld | |
Office: | Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
Term Start: | 26 June 2017 Life Peerage |
Birth Date: | 13 January 1978 |
Party: | Conservative |
Alma Mater: | Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge |
Laura Lee Wyld, Baroness Wyld (born 13 January 1978) is a British communications specialist and life peer. She served as head of the Prime Minister's Appointments Unit from 2013 to 2016, and has been a Conservative member of the House of Lords since 2017.
Wyld was educated in Newcastle upon Tyne and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where she read history.[1] She was nominated for a life peerage as part of David Cameron's Resignation Honours in 2016, but the creation of her peerage was set to be delayed until the start of the next parliamentary session.[2] She was created Baroness Wyld, of Gosforth in the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, on 22 June 2017.