Geoff Hoon was a Cabinet Minister from 1999 to 2009 under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, serving as Defence Secretary foralmost six years in the course of British military operations in Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq. He was Leader of the House ofCommons, Government Chief Whip, Secretary of State for Transport and was twice Minister for Europe. He was a Member ofParliament for Ashfield for eighteen years as well as representing Derbyshire for ten years in the European Parliament. He hasbeen an academic both in the UK and USA, practised as a barrister and has had a commercial career as Head of InternationalBusiness for a global helicopter company. As well as chairing a green energy business, he is also Chair of Trustees at TwycrossZoo.
