The Lord Robertson of Port Ellen | |
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![]() Official portrait, 2020 | |
10th Secretary General of NATO | |
In office 14 October 1999 – 17 December 2003 | |
Deputy | Sergio Balanzino Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo |
Preceded by | Javier Solana |
Succeeded by | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer |
Secretary of State for Defence | |
In office 3 May 1997 – 11 October 1999 | |
Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
Preceded by | Michael Portillo |
Succeeded by | Geoff Hoon |
Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland | |
In office 21 October 1993 – 2 May 1997 | |
Leader | John Smith Margaret Beckett (acting) Tony Blair |
Shadowing | Ian Lang Michael Forsyth |
Preceded by | Tom Clarke |
Succeeded by | Jacqui Lait (2001) |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
Assumed office 3 February 2000 Life peerage | |
Member of Parliament for Hamilton South Hamilton (1978–1997) | |
In office 31 May 1978 – 24 August 1999 | |
Preceded by | Alexander Wilson |
Succeeded by | William Tynan |
Personal details | |
Born | George Islay MacNeill Robertson 12 April 1946 Port Ellen, Argyll, Scotland |
Political party | Labour |
Spouse |
Sandra Wallace (m. 1970) |
Children | 3 |
Alma mater | University of Dundee |
George Islay MacNeill Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, KT, GCMG, PC, FRSA, FRSE (born 12 April 1946) is a British politician of the Labour Party who was the 10th Secretary General of NATO from 1999 to 2003; he succeeded Javier Solana. He was Secretary of State for Defence from 1997 to 1999, before becoming a life peer as Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, of Islay in Argyll and Bute, on 24 August 1999.[1][2]