Sally Greengross, Baroness Greengross

Sally Greengross, Baroness Greengross, 2006

Sally Ralea Greengross, Baroness Greengross OBE (born June 29, 1935 ) is a British social scientist , university professor and politician .

Life

Sally Greengross was born Sally Ralea Rosengarten to Harris Rosengarten and his wife Estelle Woolf. She attended Brighton and Hove High School in Brighton , Sussex and the London School of Economics (LSE). Originally a linguist , she began her career as a language teacher and translator . At the age of 30 she returned to the LSE and took up post-graduate studies in sociology , economics and political science . In 1972 she obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the LSE . She was a lecturer in sociology in the Department of Health Care and Social Work (formerly: West London Institute of Higher Education).

In 1977 she became Assistant Director of the British charity Age Concern; she held this office until 1982. In the following years, Greengross performed other functions for Age Concern. She worked as a "Deputy Director" (1982-1987), as Director General ( Director General ) (1987-2000) and finally since 2002 as Vice President ( VP ). As part of her work, Greengross introduced numerous innovative programs, including the Employment Forum on Age and the Age Resource and Aging Well programs . She was also responsible for growing Age Concern-run companies into multi-million pound businesses. While working at Age Concern, she was also co-chair ( Joint Chair ) of the Age Concern Institute of Gerontology at King's College London (1987-2000) and Secretary General ( Secretary General ) of Euro Link Age, the European Senior Citizens' Union (1981-2001). She was Executive Chair of the Millennium Debate of the Age Conference (1998-2000) and Chair of the RSA GENIUS Gerontology Project .

From 2000 to 2004, Greengross was Chair of the International Longevity Center UK, an independent British think tank with a scientific focus on longevity, gerontology and population development . She has been Chief Executive there since 2004 . She is Chair of the Advisory Groups of the British study English Longitudinal Study on Aging (ELSA), a long-term study on aging that is scientifically supervised at University College London . Green Gross is furthermore president ( President ) of the Pensions Policy Institute (since 2004 and since 2001 has been a member there).

She was Vice Chairman of the Britain in Europe Campaign (2000–2006) and Chair of the Experience Corps (2001–2006), an initiative of the British Government aimed at increasing the volunteering of older people . as well as board member of the charity HelpAge International .

Greengross was also active in international organizations. She worked as a consultant for the United Nations (UN) and the World Health Organization (WHO). She was a member of the UN and WHO Networks on Aging from 1983 to 2000 . She has been a member of the Advisory Council of the European Movement since 1992 .

Since December 2006 she has Commissioner ( Commissioner ) of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC); in December 2009 she was reappointed for a second term. When she took office in 2006, she declared that she did not belong to any party and had not been involved in any party politics for over five years. Since 2010 she has also been Vice President of the Local Government Association.

Greengross has authored several books on aging and gerontology, including Aging: An Adventure in Living (1985), The Law and Vulnerable Elderly People (1986), and Living, Loving and Aging (1989).

Membership in the House of Lords

On February 10, 2000, Greengross was appointed Life Peer . She bears the title Baroness Greengross , of Notting Hill in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea . In the House of Lords she sits as CROSSBENCHER .

On February 29, 2000, she gave her inaugural address.

Greengross is currently (as of November 2012) Chair of four non-partisan associations of members of the House of Lords (so-called All-Party Parliamentary Groups ): "Dementia", "Corporate Social Responsibility / Corporate Social Development" (since 2001) , “Intergenerational Futures: Old & Young Together” (since 2008) and “Incontinence / Continence Care” (since 2008). She is the co-chair of the all-party parliamentary group "Aging and Older People"; it is further Treasurer ( Treasurer ) of the All-Party Parliamentary Group "Equalities".

Honors

In 1993 Greengross was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire .

Greengross holds several honorary doctorates : University of Ulster (Hon DLitt 1994), Kingston and St George's University London (Hon DUniv), University of Exeter (Hon DUniv, 2000), Brunel University (2002), Open University (2002), Leeds Metropolitan University (2003) and Keele University (2004).

She is Honorary Vice President of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Health (1989), the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) (1989; according to other information: since 1994) and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries (2000).

The International Women's Forum voted her “UK Woman of Europe” (1990) and “Woman who Makes a Difference” (1998).

Private

Sir David married Alan Greengross (* 1929) on May 26, 1959. The marriage produced four children, three daughters and one son. Greengross counts life in the country and music to her hobbies .

Web links

• Sally Greengross at Hansard (English)
• Baroness Greengross - Biography (House of Lords)
• The Baroness Greengross - Biography (Debretts)
• Baroness Greengross OBE - Biography (EHRC)
• Baroness Greengross - Voting Behavior (The Public Whip)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Rt Hon the Baroness Greengross, OBE Biography at Debretts (available online)
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Sally Ralea Rosengarten, Baroness Greengross on thepeerage.com , accessed on September 11, 2016.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Baronness Sally Greengross - 2002 ( Memento of the original from April 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Official website of Brunel University ; accessed November 28, 2012) 
4. ↑ President / Chief Executive, Baroness Sally Greengross OBE ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Official website of the International Longevity Center) 
5. ↑ Baroness Greengross OBE ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Biography (Official Website of the Equality and Human Rights Commission) 
6. ↑ Link Bank Network (wording of the inaugural address of February 29, 2000)
7. ^ "Greengross, Baroness, (Life Peer)" , International Who's Who of Women 2002