Sarah Hogg, Viscountess Hailsham

Sarah Hogg, Viscountess Hailsham, 2018

Sarah Elizabeth Mary Hogg, Viscountess Hailsham , Baroness Hogg (born Boyd-Carpenter , born May 14, 1946 ) is a British journalist and politician with the Conservative Party , who has been a Life Peeress member of the House of Lords since 1995 .

Life

Journalist and contributor to Prime Minister John Major

After visiting the St. Mary's School in Ascot and studying at Lady Margaret Hall of the University of Oxford was Sarah Hogg, daughter of the politician John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter and since 1968 Douglas Hogg married, 1968-1981 Journalist for the weekly newspaper The Economist .

She then moved as a business editor for the Sunday paper The Sunday Times before 1983-1986 member of the business section of the newspaper The Times was. In between 1982 and 1983 she worked as an announcer and business editor for the television station Channel 4 and later from 1985 to 1990 she was both director of the London Broadcasting Co. and governor of the Center for Economic Policy Research.

In 1985, the Wincott Foundation named her Financial Journalist of the Year. In addition, from 1986 to 1989 she was deputy editor-in-chief , economics and finance editor of the daily newspaper The Independent , between 1987 and 1990 also director of the Royal National Theater and most recently from 1989 to 1990 economics editor at The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph .

In 1990 Sarah Hogg, who was awarded a Master of Arts honoris causa (Hon. MA) by The Open University in 1987 , was appointed and held the position of Second Permanent Secretary by Prime Minister John Major as Head of Political Unit at 10 Downing Street 1995.

House of Lords

Sarah Hogg, who received an honorary doctorate in literature from Loughborough University in 1992 , was raised to life peeress as Baroness Hogg , of Kettlethorpe in the County of Lincolnshire, by a letters patent dated February 3, 1995 . Shortly thereafter, she was introduced as a member of the House of Lords . In the House of Lords she initially belonged to the Conservative Party faction , but later switched to the Crossbencher faction .

Subsequently, she was a member of the council of the Hansard Society between 1995 and 1998 and a member of the House of Lords Committee on Science and Technology from 1996 to 1999 as well as a member of the Institute for Fiscal Studies between 1996 and 2005.

Economic manager

In addition, Baroness Hogg, who was a Fellow of Eton College from 1996 to 2009 , took on numerous functions in the private sector . In 1995 she became director of the Foreign and Colonial Small Companies, of which she was chair from 1997 to 2002. She also served as a member of the supervisory board of GKN plc from 1996 to 2006 , of which she was last deputy chairman from 2003 to 2006, and of the National Provident Institution between 1996 and 1999. She was also the Chair of London Economics from 1997 to 1999, a member of the Marie Curie Portfolio Trust Council from 1999 to 2002, and has been Chair of Frontier Economics since 1999.

Baroness Hogg, who was a member of the supervisory board of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) from 1999 to 2000 and then of P&O Cruises until 2003, was a member of the BBC Board of Governors between 2000 and 2005 and received another honorary doctorate in 2001 University of London .

From 2000 to 2003, Baroness Hogg, who is also an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford and an honorary doctorate from City University London in 2002, was a member of the House of Lords Committee on Monetary Policy . At the same time she was 2002-2010 chairman of the private equity -Unternehmens 3i and between 2003 and 2008 Member of the Supervisory Board of Carnival Corporation & plc and of the Council of 2005 to 2010 member of London Business School .

Since 2005 she has also been a member of the supervisory board of the energy company BG Group and also a member of the Financial Reporting Council , of which she has been chairman since 2010. She has also served as Chief Industry Director of the Royal Household (HM Treasury) since 2010 and as a board member of John Lewis plc since 2011.

Her husband Douglas Hogg inherited the 3rd Viscount Hailsham on the death of his father Quintin McGarel Hogg in 2001 . Baroness Hogg has held the higher courtesy title Viscountess Hailsham ever since .

Publications

• Too Close to Call , co-author Jonathan Hill , 1995

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on November 9, 2012)
• Ms Sarah Hogg at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed November 9, 2012)
• Biography in Debrett's (accessed November 9, 2012)