Jo Valentine, Baroness Valentine

Jo Valentine, Baroness Valentine (2011)

Josephine "Jo" Clare Valentine, Baroness Valentine (born December 8, 1958 ) is a British executive who has been Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of London First since 2003 and a member of the House of Lords since 2005 .

Life

After attending St Paul's Girls' School Jo Valentine holds a degree in mathematics and philosophy at St Hugh's College of the University of Oxford . She then began her professional career at Barings Bank , where she became the first female manager in corporate finance and planning. In 1988, while on secondment from Barings Bank, she founded the public-private partnership The Blackburn Partnership to plan the redesign of Blackburn after the crisis in the textile industry . In 1990 she moved to the industrial gas company The BOC Group as head of the corporate finance and planning department, before in 1995 she headed the Central London Partnership (CLP), an institution similar to The Blackburn Partnership .

In 1997 she moved to London First as Managing Director , a non-profit organization of companies to improve the economic situation in London through contact with national and local government. Jo Valentine, who has been Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of London First since 2003 , was a member of the National Lottery Commission between 2000 and September 2005 .

On October 10, 2005, she was raised to the nobility by a letters patent as a Life Peeress with the title Baroness Valentine , of Putney in the London Borough of Wandsworth . On 25 October 2005 introducing (followed Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords . In the upper house she belongs to the group of non-party peers, the so-called crossbenchers .

In addition, Baroness Valentine is a member of the boards of directors of TP70 2008 (ii) VCT plc and Peabody Trust and an Honorary Fellow of St Hugh's College.

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on July 8, 2012)
• Josephine Valentine at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed July 8, 2012)
• Biography on London First (accessed July 8, 2012)