Shriti Vadera, Baroness Vadera, is Chair of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Prudential plc and co-chair of the World Bank Private Sector Investment Lab. Baroness Vadera has also been appointed as the co-chair of the Creative Industries Council. She previously held roles at UBS Warburg as well as sitting on the Council of Economic Advisers at HM Treasury from 1999 to 2007, and as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for International Development. She was created a life peer on 11 July 2007.