Sarah Hogg, Viscountess Hailsham

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Template:Short description Template:EngvarB Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Sarah Elizabeth Mary Hogg, Viscountess Hailsham, Baroness Hogg (Template:Nee; born 14 May 1946), is a British economist, journalist, and politician. She was the first woman to chair a FTSE 100 company.

Early life and education

Sarah Elizabeth Mary Boyd-Carpenter was born on 14 May 1946.[1] Her father was John Boyd-Carpenter (later Baron Boyd-Carpenter), who served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General from 1962 to 1964. She attended Miss Ironside's School in Kensington.[2] She then went to the Roman Catholic girls' boarding school St Mary's School Ascot.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Later she attended Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford where she read philosophy, politics and economics (PPE).[3] While at Oxford, she edited the student newspaper Cherwell.

Career

Journalism

Hogg was an economics editor for The Independent. She was also an early presenter of Channel 4 News, but her voice, with its uncertainty of pitch, was felt by many viewers to be a distraction.[4] At this time she portrayed Margaret Thatcher in a television docudrama of negotiations between the UK and Irish governments.[5]

Politics

Hogg was the head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit for Sir John Major.[6] With Jonathan Hopkin Hill, she wrote about the Major years in her book Too Close to Call.

On 3 February 1995, she was created a life peer as Baroness Hogg, of Kettlethorpe, in the county of Lincolnshire.[7] She was as a Conservative member of the House of Lords until May 2010 and thereafter has sat as a crossbencher.[8]

Business

As Chairman of 3i Group from 2002, she became the first woman to chair a FTSE 100 company.[9] In 2010 she was appointed the Chairman of the Financial Reporting Council.[10] She is also the chairman of Frontier Economics Limited.[9] Other current and former board memberships include the Financial Conduct Authority, BG Group, the BBC, P&O Cruises, P&O Princess, and Eton College.[11]

Personal life

Hogg married Douglas Hogg in 1968. They have a son and a daughter.

Through her marriage, Hogg has been titled Viscountess Hailsham since her husband's succession to his hereditary peerage in 2001, and Baroness Hailsham of Kettlethorpe since his own creation as a life peer in 2015.[12] She sits in the House of Lords under her suo jure title, Baroness Hogg.[8]

Other activities

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Bibliography

References

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