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{{short description|British senior diplomat and life peer}}
{{For|the American businessman and politician|Pete Ricketts}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = The Lord Ricketts
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCMG|GCVO}}
| image = Official_portrait_of_Lord_Ricketts_crop_2.jpg
| office = [[List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to France| = [[British Ambassador to France]]
| monarch = [[Elizabeth II]]
| primeminister = [[David Cameron]]
| term_start = 2012
| term_end = 2016
| predecessor = [[Peter Westmacott]]
| successor = [[Julian King (diplomat)|Julian King]]
| office1 = [[National Security Council (United Kingdom)#National Security Advisor|United Kingdom National Security Advisor]]
| term_start1 = 12 May 2010▼
|monarch1 = [[Elizabeth II]]
| term_end1 = 23 January 2012▼
▲|term_start1 = 12 May 2010
| predecessor1 = ''Position established''▼
▲|term_end1 = 23 January 2012
| successor1 = [[Kim Darroch]]
▲|predecessor1 = ''Position established''
|successor1 primeminister1 = [[KimDavid DarrochCameron]]
| office2 = [[Permanent Secretary]], [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]]▼
|primeminister1 = [[David Cameron]]
| term_start2 = 2006▼
▲|office2 = [[Permanent Secretary]], [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]]
| term_end2 = 2010▼
▲|term_start2 = 2006
| predecessor2 = [[Michael Jay, Baron Jay of Ewelme|Michael Jay]]▼
▲|term_end2 = 2010
| successor2 = [[Simon Fraser (civil servant)|Simon Fraser]]▼
▲|predecessor2 = [[Michael Jay]]
| primeminister2 = [[Tony Blair]]<br />[[Gordon Brown]]
▲|successor2 = [[Simon Fraser (civil servant)|Simon Fraser]]
| office3 = [[Members of the House of Lords|Member]] of the [[House of Lords]]<br />{{small|[[Lord Temporal]]}}▼
|monarch2 = [[Elizabeth II]]
|primeminister2 term_start3 = [[Tony17 Blair]]October 2016<br />{{small|[[GordonLife BrownPeerage]]}}
| term_end3 = ▼
▲|office3 = [[Members of the House of Lords|Member]] of the [[House of Lords]]<br />{{small|[[Lord Temporal]]}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1952|09|30|df=yes}}▼
|term_start3 = 17 October 2016<br />{{small|[[Life Peerage]]}}
| birth_place = [[Sutton Coldfield]], [[United KingdomWarwickshire]], England, UK▼
▲|term_end3 =
| birthname = Peter Forbes Ricketts
▲|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1952|09|30|df=yes}}
| nationality = {{Flagicon|UK}} [[British nationality law|British]]▼
▲|birth_place = [[Sutton Coldfield]], [[United Kingdom]]
|birthname =spouse Peter Forbes = Suzanne Ricketts
| children = 2▼
▲|nationality = {{Flagicon|UK}} [[British nationality law|British]]
|alma_mater education = [[Bishop Vesey's Grammar School]]<br />[[Pembroke College, Oxford]]▼
|spouse = Suzanne Ricketts
| alma_mater = [[Pembroke College, Oxford]]
▲|children = 2
| occupation = Diplomat▼
▲|alma_mater = [[Bishop Vesey's Grammar School]]<br />[[Pembroke College, Oxford]]
| honorific_prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
▲|occupation = Diplomat
}}
 
'''Peter Forbes Ricketts, Baron Ricketts''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|GCMG|GCVO}} (born 30 September 1952)<ref>Foreign Policy in an Era of Globalisation. Institute of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations. Thursday 15 2009.</ref> is a retired British senior diplomat and a [[life peer]]. He has sat as a [[crossbencher]] in the [[House of Lords]] since 2016.
 
Ricketts served as chair of the [[Joint Intelligence Committee (United Kingdom)|Joint Intelligence Committee]] (JIC) under Prime Minister [[Tony Blair]]. He was the UK government’sgovernment's first national security adviser from 2010 from 2012, serving under Prime Minister [[David Cameron]].
 
== Personal life ==
Ricketts attended [[Bishop Vesey's Grammar School]], [[Sutton Coldfield]], and [[Pembroke College, Oxford]], where he read English Literature. He married Suzanne Horlington; they have two adult children.<ref name=PFRvolgensWhosWho>{{cite book|title= Who's Who 2001|year=2001 |publisher=A&C Black, London |page=1751 |isbn=0-7136-5432-5 |id= Accessed 2 August 2016}}</ref>
 
== CareerDiplomatic career ==
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Ricketts began his career in the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]] in 1974 and served as the Assistant Private Secretary to former Foreign Secretary [[Geoffrey Howe]]. He later served as the [[Permanent Representative]] to [[NATO]] in [[Brussels]]. Apart from Brussels, he has been posted to Singapore, Washington D.C.DC and Paris.
 
He served under Prime MinsterMinister [[Tony Blair]] as Chairman of the [[Joint Intelligence Committee (United Kingdom)|Joint Intelligence Committee]], leading him to [[List of witnesses of The Iraq Inquiry#November 24|give evidence to]] [[The Iraq Inquiry]] ("The [[Chilcot Report]]") in November 2009.<ref name="BBC I">{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8375439.stm|title=Iraq inquiry told of 'clear' threat from Saddam Hussein|date=24 November 2009|work=[[BBC News]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|accessdate=27 January 2010}}</ref> From 2006 to 2010, Ricketts served under Blair and Prime Minister [[Gordon Brown]] as the [[Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs|Permanent Secretary for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office]].
 
He served under Prime Minister [[David Cameron]] as the UK National Security Adviser from 2010 to 2012. He replaced [[Peter Westmacott]] as [[List of ambassadors from the United Kingdom to France|HM Ambassador to France]] effective January 2012, with [[Kim Darroch]] taking Ricketts's old role as [[National Security Adviser (United Kingdom)|National Security Adviser]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/latest-news/2011/06/senior-diplomatic-appointments-65056|title=Senior Diplomatic Appointments|date=24 June 2011|work=[[10 Downing Street|Number 10]]|accessdate=25 June 2011}}</ref>
 
In DecemberJanuary 20152016, thehe Foreignstepped anddown Commonwealthas Officethe announcedUK thatAmbassador heto wasFrance toand retireretired from the [[Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service|Diplomatic Service]] in January 2016.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/change-of-her-majestys-ambassador-to-france |title=Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to France |publisher=Foreign & Commonwealth Office |date=18 December 2015}}</ref> He retired from HM Diplomatic Service in January 2016.{{citation needed|date=March 2016}}
 
===Retirement=Public life==
He was nominated for a [[life peer]]agepeerage in the [[2016 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours]] and was created '''Baron Ricketts''', of Shortlands in the County of Kent, on 17 October.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Resignation Peerages 2016 |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/543973/resignation_peerages_2016.pdf {{Bare URL inline|date=May 2021}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=61738 |date=21 October 2016 |page=22392 }}</ref> He now sits as a [[crossbencher]].▼
In 2016 he took appointments as Strategic Adviser to Lockheed Martin UK.<ref>[https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ricketts-peter-ambassador-to-france-and-monaco-acoba-recommendation/summary-of-business-appointments-applications-sir-peter-ricketts]</ref>▼
 
▲InBetween 2016 heand tookJanuary appointments2022 he was asa Strategic Adviser to Lockheed Martin UK.<ref>[{{Cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ricketts-peter-ambassador-to-france-and-monaco-acoba-recommendation/summary-of-business-appointments-applications-sir-peter-ricketts]|title=Summary of business appointments applications - Sir Peter Ricketts}}</ref>
In October 2020 a cross-party group of MPs and peers, backed by Lord Ricketts, planned to take legal action against Prime Minster [[Boris Johnson]] over his government’s refusal to order an inquiry into Russian interference in UK elections. The move followed the publication in July 2020 of the Russia report by parliament’s intelligence and security committee (ISC), which found that the government and its intelligence services had failed to investigate Kremlin meddling in the 2016 EU referendum vote.
 
In October 2020 a cross-party group of MPs and peers, backed by Lord Ricketts, planned to take legal action against Prime Minister [[Boris Johnson]] over his government's refusal to order an inquiry into Russian interference in UK elections. The move followed the publication in July 2020 of the Russia report by parliament's intelligence and security committee (ISC), which found that the government and its intelligence services had failed to investigate Kremlin meddling in the 2016 EU referendum vote. The high court claim named Prime Minister Johnson as defendant.<ref>{{cite [web | last1=Harding | first1=Luke | title=Legal action taken against PM over refusal to investigate Kremlin meddling | url=https://ampwww.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/29/legal-action-taken-against-pm-over-refusal-to-investigate-kremlin-meddling?__twitter_impression | date=true29 October 2020 | work=[[The Guardian]] | access-date=30 April 2022}}</ref>
 
In April 2022, Ricketts called [[Marine Le Pen]]'s proposal for a Franco-British defence cooperation treaty "ignorant and dangerous."<ref>{{cite web | last1=Wintour | first1=Patrick | title=Le Pen's plans for post-Brexit treaty 'ignorant and dangerous' | url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/13/le-pen-plans-post-brexit-treaty-ignorant-dangerous | date=13 April 2022 | work=[[The Guardian]] | access-date=30 April 2022}}</ref>
 
== Honours ==
He was appointed CMG in the 1999 Birthday Honours, [[Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George]] (KCMG) in 2003,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=57100 |date=31 October 2003 |page=10 |supp=y}}</ref> [[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George]] (GCMG) in the 2011 New Year Honours,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=59647 |date=31 December 2010 |page=3 |supp=y}}</ref> and [[Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order]] (GCVO) in 2014.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=60916 |date=27 June 2014 |page=12742}}</ref>
 
▲He was nominated for a [[life peer]]age in the [[2016 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours]] and was created '''Baron Ricketts''', of Shortlands in the County of Kent, on 17 October.<ref>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/543973/resignation_peerages_2016.pdf {{Bare URL inline|date=May 2021}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=61738 |date=21 October 2016 |page=22392 }}</ref>
 
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