William Waldegrave was Provost of Eton College. He was one of the original members of Lord Rothschild’s Think Tank in the early 1970s. He has served as a Member of Parliament and as Minister of State at the UK Department of the Environment and the Foreign Office. At Cabinet level he was Secretary of State for Health, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Minister of Agriculture and Chief Secretary to the Treasury.He is a member of the House of Lords.

He was a Kennedy Fellow at Harvard University and is a Fellow of All Souls College Oxford.

He is married to Caroline Waldegrave OBE, Director of Leith’s School of Food and Wine. They have four children and a dairy farming business in Somerset.