John Wakeham

The Right Honourable
The Lord Wakeham
PC DL
The Right Honourable The Lord Wakeham PC DL
	Official portrait, 2019
Leader of the House of Lords
	In office; 11 April 1992 – 20 July 1994
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	The Lord Waddington
Succeeded by	Viscount Cranborne
Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
	In office; 11 April 1992 – 20 July 1994
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	The Lord Waddington
Succeeded by	Viscount Cranborne
	In office; 13 June 1987 – 10 January 1988
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	John Biffen
Succeeded by	The Lord Belstead
Secretary of State for Energy
	In office; 24 July 1989 – 11 April 1992
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher; John Major
Preceded by	Cecil Parkinson
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Lord President of the Council
	In office; 10 January 1988 – 24 July 1989
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	The Viscount Whitelaw
Succeeded by	Geoffrey Howe
Leader of the House of Commons
	In office; 13 June 1987 – 24 July 1989
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	John Biffen
Succeeded by	Geoffrey Howe
Government Chief Whip in the House of Commons; Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury
	In office; 9 June 1983 – 13 June 1987
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Michael Jopling
Succeeded by	David Waddington
Minister of State for the Treasury
	In office; 6 April 1982 – 9 June 1983
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	The Lord Cockfield
Succeeded by	Barney Hayhoe
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
	In office; 15 September 1981 – 6 April 1982
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Michael Marshall
Succeeded by	John Butcher
Lord Commissioner of the Treasury
	In office; 9 January 1981 – 15 September 1981
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	David Waddington
Succeeded by	Tony Newton
Member of the House of Lords
	Lord Temporal
	Life peerage ; 24 April 1992
Member of Parliament ; for South Colchester and Maldon; (Maldon 1974–1983)
	In office; 28 February 1974 – 16 March 1992
Preceded by	Brian Harrison
Succeeded by	John Whittingdale
Personal details
Born	22 June 1932
Party	Conservative
Spouses	Roberta Wakeham (m. 1965; died 1984); Alison Ward (m. 1985);
Children	3
Alma mater	Christ Church, Oxford

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John Wakeham, Baron Wakeham, PC DL (born 22 June 1932) is a British businessman and Conservative Party politician. He was chancellor of Brunel University between 1998 and 2012, and since then has been its chancellor emeritus.

Wakeham was a director of Enron from 1994 until its bankruptcy in 2001.