David Willetts Biography

David Linsay Willetts, Baron Willetts, PC, HonFRSC, FAcSS (born 9 March 1956) is an English Conservative Party politician, life peer, and academic. From 1992 to 2015, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the constituency of Havant in Hampshire. He was the Minister of State for Universities and Science from 2010 until July 2014. Willetts became a member of the House of Lords in 2015. He has been a Visiting Professor at King's College London since 2014. In 2018 he will be appointed as the Chancellor of the University of Leicester.