Lindsay Northover is Parliamentary undersecretary of state at the Department for International Development. Prior to 2010, she was Liberal Democrat spokeswoman on international development in the House of Lords. She is a former trustee of UNICEF, the Tropical Health and Education Trust, a former council member of the Overseas Development Institute and chaired Women Liberal Democrats. Her first degree was from Oxford; her doctorate from the U.S., and she was a lecturer at University College, London.