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The Viscountess Hailsham
suo jure Baroness Hogg
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| Member of the House of Lords | |
| Life peerage 3 February 1995 | |
| Director of the Number 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 78) |
| Political party | Conservative (before 2010) Crossbench (2010–present) |
| Spouse | Douglas Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford |
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Sarah Elizabeth Mary Hogg, Viscountess Hailsham, suo jure Baroness Hogg (born 14 May 1946),[1] is a British economist, journalist, and politician. She was the first woman to chair a FTSE 100 company.
She was born Sarah Elizabeth Mary Boyd-Carpenter, her father being John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter, a former Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General. She attended Miss Ironside's School in Kensington.[2] She then went to the Roman Catholic girls' boarding school St Mary's School Ascot.[citation needed] Later she attended Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford where she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE).[3] While at Oxford University, she edited Cherwell, the student newspaper.
Through her 1968 marriage to Member of Parliament Douglas Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham, she is Viscountess Hailsham. However, following the granting of a life peerage in 1995, she is Baroness Hogg in her own right.[4]
She was an economics editor for The Independent newspaper. 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.[5] At this time she portrayed Margaret Thatcher in a television docudrama of negotiations between the UK and Irish governments.[6]
Hogg was the head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit for Sir John Major.[7] With Jonathan Hopkin Hill, she wrote about the Major years in her book Too Close to Call.
In 1995, she was granted a life peerage and now sits as a crossbencher in the House of LordsasBaroness Hogg, of Kettlethorpe in the County of Lincolnshire.[8]
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]
Hogg is married to Douglas Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham and together they have two children:
She is a trustee of the school where she was educated and also a trustee of the charitable Trusthouse Foundation.
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.
Sarah Hogg, 64, grew up immersed in Conservative politics. Her father was Lord Boyd-Carpenter, a Tory Treasury minister, and she married Douglas Hogg, an MP until this year, who gained fame for claiming the expense of cleaning his moat. Her husband was Agriculture minister in John Major's cabinet while she headed the Downing Street policy unit.
She became Viscountess Hailsham when her father-in-law, the Tory Lord Chancellor, Quintin Hogg, died in 2001 but had already been made a baroness in her own right in 1995, bringing her into the House of Lords.
The Independent's former economics editor and Channel 4 News presenter now chairs the Frontier Economics consultancy besides heading the FRC and sitting on the BG gas group board. Lady Hogg has also been a BBC governor, chairman of investment group 3i, and a director of P&O, Carnival and GKN.
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