![]() |
The Viscount Camrose | |
---|---|
![]() Official portrait, 2022 | |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property | |
In office 7 March 2023 –5 July 2024 | |
Prime Minister | Rishi Sunak |
Preceded by | Office established |
Member of the House of Lords | |
as an elected ereditary peer 6 April 2022 –present | |
By-election | 6 April 2022 |
Preceded by | The 3rd Baron Rotherwick |
Personal details | |
Born | Jonathan William Berry February 26,1970 |
Political party | Conservative |
Parent(s) | Adrian Berry,4th Viscount Camrose Marina Beatrice Sulzberger |
Jonathan William Berry,5th Viscount Camrose (born 26 February 1970) is a British hereditary peer and Conservative politician.
Camrose was born in 1970,the only son of Adrian Berry,4th Viscount Camrose and his wife Marina Beatrice Sulzberger. He is a great-grandson of the newspaper publisher William Berry,1st Viscount Camrose and of the politician F. E. Smith,1st Earl of Birkenhead.
He attended Durham University,completing a Bachelor of Arts in French and German in 1993,and a Masters of Business Administration at Carnegie Mellon University. From 2008 to 2009,he was head of change management at BP and in 2010 he founded Camrose Communications Ltd. [1]
Camrose succeeded to the viscountcy upon the death of his father in 2016.
In a March 2022 by-election,Camrose was elected to replace Lord Rotherwick in the House of Lords following Rotherwick's retirement in February 2022. [2] He made his maiden speech on 27 June 2022. [3]
In March 2023,Rishi Sunak appointed Camrose a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Science,Innovation and Technology where he is Minister for AI and Intellectual Property. [4] Viscount Camrose became the second hereditary peer to be appointed to a ministerial role by Sunak. [5]
Camrose married Aurélie Molin in 1996. They have four children: [6]