Biography: Peter Forbes Ricketts, Baron Ricketts, GCMG, GCVO is a retired British senior diplomat and a life peer. He has sat as a crossbencher in the House of Lords since 2016. Ricketts served as chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) under Prime Minister Tony Blair. He was the UK government's first national security adviser from 2010 from 2012, serving under Prime Minister David Cameron. This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Peter_Ricketts, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License