George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

The Right Honourable The Lord Robertson of Port Ellen KT GCMG PC FRSA FRSE
Official portrait, 2020
10th Secretary General of NATO
In office 14 October 1999 – 17 December 2003
Deputy	Sergio Balanzino Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo
Preceded by	Javier Solana
Succeeded by	Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
Secretary of State for Defence
In office 3 May 1997 – 11 October 1999
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Michael Portillo
Succeeded by	Geoff Hoon
Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland
In office 21 October 1993 – 2 May 1997
Leader	John Smith Margaret Beckett (Acting) Tony Blair
Shadowing	Ian Lang Michael Forsyth
Preceded by	Tom Clarke
Succeeded by	Jacqui Lait (2001)
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 3 February 2000 Life peerage
Member of Parliament for Hamilton South Hamilton (1978–1997)
In office 31 May 1978 – 24 August 1999
Preceded by	Alexander Wilson
Succeeded by	William Tynan
Personal details
Born	George Islay MacNeill Robertson (1946-04-12) 12 April 1946 (age 78) Port Ellen, Argyll, Scotland
Political party	Labour
Spouse	Sandra Wallace ​ (m. 1970)​
Children	3
Alma mater	University of Dundee

George Islay MacNeill Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, KT, GCMG, PC, FRSA, FRSE (born 12 April 1946), is a British politician of the Labour Party who was the 10th Secretary General of NATO from 1999 to 2003; he succeeded Javier Solana. He was Secretary of State for Defence from 1997 to 1999, before becoming a life peer as Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, of Islay in Argyll and Bute, on 24 August 1999.^[1][2]