Patience Wheatcroft, Baroness Wheatcroft
Patience Wheatcroft, Baroness Wheatcroft (born September 28, 1951 ) is a British journalist , manager and Conservative Party politician who was editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal Europe from 2009 to 2010 and has been a member of the House of Lords since 2011 .
Life
Journalist and promoted to editor-in-chief of Wall Street Journal Europe
Patience Wheatcroft worked after school as a journalist and worked from 1972 to 1973 at the Chamber of Commerce in London before to 1976 reporter and news editor for the trade publication Estates Times was. In 1976 she joined the Daily Mail as a reporter , then in 1977 as a reporter for The Sunday Times, and between 1982 and 1983 as a finance editor for Working Woman .
At the same time, Patience Wheatcroft was deputy editor for urban news at The Times between 1982 and 1984 . Together with her husband Tony Salter, she founded the trade magazine Retail Week in 1988 , for which she worked as a consulting editor until 1994 . At the same time, she worked as a profile writer for The Daily Telegraph from 1990 to 1995 and was subsequently deputy editor for urban news for the Mail on Sunday before she was city and business editor for The Times between 1997 and 2006 . From 2006 to September 2007 she worked as an editor for The Sunday Telegraph before becoming editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal Europe in June 2009, a position that lasted until November 2009.
In the meantime she also took on functions in the private sector and has been a board member of Barclays and Shaftesbury plc since January 1, 2008 .
House of Lords and other functions
On December 22, 2010 she was raised to the nobility by a letters patent as a Life Peeress with the title Baroness Wheatcroft , of Blackheath in the London Borough of Greenwich . On January 10, 2011 her introduction ( Introduction ) followed as a member of the House of Lords , in which she belongs to the faction of the Conservative Party.
In addition to her political work in the House of Lords, she is a member of the board of directors of the financial services institute St James's Place plc and of the car manufacturer Fiat SpA and economic advisor to the legal consultancy DLA Piper . Baroness Wheatcroft, who continues to work as a freelance journalist for The Times , is also a member of the UK advisory board for technology group Huawei and finance and communications company Pelham Bell Pottinger .
Baroness Wheatcroft is also a member of the British-Indian Round Table and Visiting Fellow of the Center for Corporate Reputation at the University of Oxford and trustee of the British Museum and the Policy Exchange think tank . She also serves on the advisory boards of the British Olympic Society and the Reuters Institute for Journalistic Studies.
Web links
- Entry on Parliament's homepage
- Entry in They Work For You (accessed July 12, 2012)
- w.htm Cracroft's Peerage
- Biography in Debrett’s (accessed on July 12, 2012)
Individual evidence
- ^ Patience Wheatcroft to head Wall Street Journal Europe . In: Presse Gazette of June 17, 2009
- ^ Patience Wheatcroft to leave Wall Street Journal Europe . In: The Guardian, November 19, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wheatcroft, Patience, Baroness Wheatcroft |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wheatcroft, Patience, Baroness Wheatcroft (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British politician, journalist and manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1951 |