Michael Forsyth, Baron Forsyth of Drumlean

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The Right Honourable The Lord Forsyth of Drumlean PC
Official portrait, 2024
Chairman of the Association of Conservative Peers
Incumbent
Assumed office September 2021
Chair of the Economic Affairs Committee
In office 27 June 2017 – 19 January 2022
Preceded by	The Lord Hollick
Succeeded by	The Lord Bridges of Headley
Secretary of State for Scotland
In office 5 June 1995 – 2 May 1997
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	Ian Lang
Succeeded by	Donald Dewar
Minister of State for Home Affairs
In office 20 July 1994 – 5 June 1995
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	The Earl Ferrers
Succeeded by	Ann Widdecombe
Minister of State for Employment
In office 14 April 1992 – 20 July 1994
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	Eric Forth
Succeeded by	Ann Widdecombe
Minister of State for Scotland
In office 7 September 1990 – 14 April 1992
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher John Major
Preceded by	The Lord Sanderson of Bowden
Succeeded by	The Lord Fraser of Carmyllie
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 July 1999 Life peerage
Member of Parliament for Stirling
In office 9 June 1983 – 8 April 1997
Preceded by	Constituency created
Succeeded by	Anne McGuire
Personal details
Born	(1954-10-16) 16 October 1954 (age 70) Montrose, Scotland
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Susan Clough ​ (m. 1977)​
Children	3
Alma mater	University of St Andrews

Michael Bruce Forsyth, Baron Forsyth of Drumlean, PC (born 16 October 1954) is a British financier and Conservative politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stirling from 1983 to 1997 and served in the cabinet of John Major as Secretary of State for Scotland from 1995 to 1997.

He is Chairman of Secure Trust Bank, and a Director of J&J Denholm and of Denholm Logistics Ltd. He was a director and Chairman of Hyperion Insurance Group until its merger with RKH Group in 2015. A former Deputy Chairman of JPMorgan UK and Evercore Partners International, he was knighted in 1997 and appointed to the House of Lords in 1999. He is a member of the Privy Council and served on the Development Boards of the Royal Society and the National Portrait Gallery. He is also a past president of the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland.

He was appointed for a second term to the House of Lords' Economic Affairs Committee in 2015, and as its chairman following the election in 2017. He was elected as Chairman of the Association of Conservative Peers in September 2021 (the House of Lords' equivalent to the House of Commons' 1922 Committee). He is president of the Steamboat Association of Great Britain.