Catherine Margaret Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, PC (born 20 March 1956) is the EU's first High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. She was chosen as Europe's foreign minister at a summit of the 27 EU leaders in Brussels on 19 November 2009, which also nominated Belgium's prime minister Herman Van Rompuy to the post of President of the European Council. Catherine Ashton's appointment still needs the approval of the European Parliament.
A British Labour politician, Ashton was appointed a life peer in 1999 by the Labour government and went on to hold junior ministries in two departments. She was later appointed Leader of the House of Lords, and in that role she was instrumental in steering the Lisbon Treaty through Britain's Upper House. Subsequently, she became Britain's EU Commissioner, where she held the Trade portfolio
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