Editing David Willetts (section)

===Peerage and further ventures===
In July 2014, Willetts announced that he would not contest the [[2015 United Kingdom general election|next general election]], saying that "after more than 20 years the time has come to move onto fresh challenges."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/politics/havant-mp-to-stand-down-at-next-general-election-after-more-than-two-decades-1-6177913|title=Havant MP to stand down at next General Election after more than two decades |work=[[The News (Portsmouth)|The News]] |location=Portsmouth |first=Miles |last=O'Leary |date=14 July 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180630133141/https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/politics/havant-mp-to-stand-down-at-next-general-election-after-more-than-two-decades-1-6177913 |archive-date=30 June 2018 |access-date=7 August 2020}}</ref> In October 2014, Willetts was appointed a visiting professor at [[King's College London]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/willetts-appointed-to-teach-and-research-at-kings-college-london/2016482.article|title=Willetts appointed to teach and research at King's College London |date=21 October 2014 |first=John |last=Morgan |work=Times Higher Education (THE) |access-date=7 August 2020}}</ref> It was announced that he was to be a [[life peer]] in the [[2015 Dissolution Honours]] and was created Baron Willetts, of [[Havant]] in the [[County of Hampshire]], on 16 October 2015.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=61388 |date=22 October 2015 |page=19846}}</ref> In June 2015, Willetts was appointed executive chair of the think tank the [[Resolution Foundation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.resolutionfoundation.org/about-us/team/david-willetts/|title=About us: David Willetts|publisher=Resolution Foundation|access-date=30 March 2016}}</ref> In May 2018 he was elected a Honorary Fellow of the [[Royal Society]].<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://royalsociety.org/news/2018/05/distinguished-scientists-elected-fellows-royal-society-2018/|title=Distinguished scientists elected as Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society |agency=The Royal Society |date=9 May 2018 |access-date=9 May 2018}}</ref> In February 2022 he was appointed a director of the Synbioven investment fund,<ref name="Find and update company information 2022">{{cite web | title=SYNBIOVEN LIMITED people – GOV.UK | website=Find and update company information | date=21 February 2022 | url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/13929576/officers | access-date=11 July 2022}}</ref> and in April 2022 he was appointed chair of the board of the [[UK Space Agency]].<ref name="GOV.UK 2022"/>