We are pleased to announce that Lord Christopher Patton, Chancellor of Oxford University, will be our guest for the 2019 Garden Party. The event will again be held at the British Ambassador's Residence in Paris.

Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC is a British politician who served as the 28th and final Governor of Hong Kong from 1992-1997. He has been a crossbench member of the House of Lords since 2005 and a former Conservative politician until 2011, as Member of Parliament for Bath from 1979 to 1992.

Patten first became a junior minister in 1986 and a member of the Cabinet from 1989-1992. He was Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1990-1992, and European Commissioner from 1999-2004. Patten served as Chairman of the BBC Trust from 2011-2014. Currently, he is the Chancellor of the University of Oxford, a post he has held since 2003.