Paul Deighton, Baron Deighton

The Right Honourable The Lord Deighton KBE
Deighton speaking at the Moët Hennessy Financial Times Club dinner in London, 2011
Commercial Secretary to the Treasury
In office 3 January 2013 – 14 May 2015
Prime Minister	David Cameron
Chancellor	George Osborne
Preceded by	The Lord Sassoon
Succeeded by	The Lord O'Neill of Gatley
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 November 2012 Life Peerage
Personal details
Born	(1956-01-18) 18 January 1956 (age 68) Carshalton, Surrey, UK
Political party	Conservative
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge

Paul Clive Deighton, Baron Deighton,^[1] KBE (born 18 January 1956) is a British Conservative politician who served as Commercial Secretary to HM Treasury from January 2013 to May 2015. Deighton is a former investment banker who previously served as Chief Executive of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), the organisation responsible for planning the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics.

Deighton is now Chairman of The Economist Group.