The Viscountess Hailsham | |
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| Member of the House of Lords | |
| Life peerage 3 February 1995 | |
| Director of theNumber 10 Policy Unit | |
| In office 28 November 1990 – 5 July 1995 | |
| Prime Minister | John Major |
| Preceded by | Brian Griffiths |
| Succeeded by | Norman Blackwell |
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| Born | Sarah Elizabeth Mary Boyd-Carpenter (1946-05-14)14 May 1946 (age 79) |
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| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford |
Sarah Elizabeth Mary Hogg, Viscountess Hailsham, Baroness Hogg (née Boyd-Carpenter; born 14 May 1946), is a British economist, journalist, and politician. She was the first woman to chair aFTSE 100 company.
Sarah Elizabeth Mary Boyd-Carpenter was born on 14 May 1946.[1] Her father wasJohn Boyd-Carpenter (later Baron Boyd-Carpenter), who served asChief Secretary to the Treasury andPaymaster General from 1962 to 1964. She attendedMiss Ironside's School in Kensington.[2] She then went to the Roman Catholic girls' boarding schoolSt Mary's School Ascot.[citation needed] Later she attendedLady Margaret Hall at theUniversity of Oxford where she readphilosophy, politics and economics (PPE).[3] While at Oxford, she edited the student newspaperCherwell.
Hogg was an economics editor forThe Independent. She was also an early presenter ofChannel 4 News, but her voice, with its uncertainty of pitch, was felt by many viewers to be a distraction.[4] At this time she portrayedMargaret Thatcher in a television docudrama of negotiations between the UK and Irish governments.[5]
Hogg was the head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit forSir John Major.[6] WithJonathan Hopkin Hill, she wrote about the Major years in her bookToo Close to Call.
On 3 February 1995, she was created alife peer asBaroness Hogg, of Kettlethorpe, in the county of Lincolnshire.[7] She was as aConservative member of theHouse of Lords until May 2010 and thereafter has sat as acrossbencher.[8]
As Chairman of3i Group from 2002, she became the first woman to chair aFTSE 100 company.[9]In 2010 she was appointed the Chairman of theFinancial Reporting Council.[10] She is also the chairman of Frontier Economics Limited.[9] Other current and former board memberships include theFinancial Conduct Authority,BG Group, theBBC,P&O Cruises,P&O Princess, andEton College.[11]
Hogg marriedDouglas Hogg in 1968. They have a son and a daughter.
Through her marriage, Hogg has been titledViscountess Hailsham since her husband's succession to hishereditary peerage in 2001, andBaroness Hailsham of Kettlethorpe since his own creation as a life peer in 2015.[12] She sits in the House of Lords under hersuo jure title,Baroness Hogg.[8]
She is a trustee of the school where she was educated and also a trustee of the charitable Trusthouse Foundation.[citation needed]
Baroness Hogg, Chairman, Financial Reporting Council, 67
Hogg became chairman of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) in May, bringing to bear more than two decades among London's top business figureheads, from serving her time as governor of the BBC, chairing private equity group 3i and serving on the boards of P&O, Bg group and Banco Santander, punctuated by a stint in John Major's policy unit.
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