Sally Greengross, Baroness Greengross
Sally Ralea Green Gross, Gross Baroness Green OBE (* June 29, 1935 ) is a British social scientist, university teacher and politician.
Life
Sally Green Gross was born as Sally Ralea Rose Garden, the daughter of Harris rose garden and his wife Estelle Woolf. She attended Brighton and Hove High School 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 years, she returned to the LSE and took a post- graduate degree in the subjects on sociology, economics and political science. In 1972, she graduated from the LSE to the Bachelor of Arts. She was a lecturer in sociology at the Department of Healthcare and Social Work (formerly West London Institute of Higher Education ).
In 1977 she became Assistant Director ( Assistant Director) of the British charity Age Concern; this office she held until 1982. For Age Concern Green Gross practiced in the following years further functions. She has worked as "Deputy Director" (1982-1987), as Director General (Director General ) ( 1987-2000 ) and finally since 2002 as Vice - President ( VP ). During her tenure Green Gross led a number of innovative programs, including the Employment Forum on Age and the Age Resource programs and Ageing Well. She was also responsible for ensuring that led by Age Concern enterprises were expanded to companies with a budget of several million pounds. 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 ( Secretary General) of Euro Link Age, the European Senior Citizens' Union ( 1981-2001 ). She was Chairman ( Executive Chair ) of the Conference Millennium Debate of the Age (1998-2000 ) and Chairman of the RSA GENIUS Gerontology Project.
From 2000 to 2004 Green Gross was Chairman ( Chair ) of the International Longevity Centre UK, an independent British think-tank with the scientific focus on the themes of life, gerontology and demography. Since 2004 she has been there CEO (Chief Executive). She is Chair ( Chair ) of the advisory bodies ( Advisory Groups ) of the British study English Longitudinal Study on Ageing (ELSA ), a longitudinal study on aging, which is scientifically supervised at University College London. Green Gross is further President (President) of the Pensions Policy Institute (since 2004 and since 2001 she has been a member there ).
She was Vice -President ( Vice Chairman ) of Britain in Europe campaign (2000-2006 ) and Chair ( Chair ) of the Experience Corps ( 2001-2006), an initiative of the British Government, with the aim to strengthen the involvement of older people in volunteering, and Board Member (Board Member) of the charity HelpAge International.
Green Gross was also active in international organizations. As a consultant, she worked for the United Nations ( UN) and the World Health Organization ( WHO) worked. She was from 1983 to 2000 member of the UN and WHO Network on Ageing. Since 1992 she has been managing board member (Member of the Advisory Council) of the European Movement.
Since December 2006 she has been Commissioner ( Commissioner) of the Equality and Human Rights Commission ( EHRC ); In December 2009, she was re-appointed for a second term. When taking office in 2006, she stated that it belongs to no party and have been involved politically for any party for over five years. Since 2010 she is also Vice - President ( Vice - President) of the Local Government Association.
Green Gross wrote several books on aging and gerontology, so among other things Ageing: An Adventure in Living ( 1985), The Law and Vulnerable Elderly People (1986 ) and Living, Loving and Ageing (1989).
Membership in the House of Lords
On February 10, 2000 Green Gross was appointed Life Peer. It bears the title Baroness Green Gross, of Notting Hill in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. In the House of Lords she sits as a cross Bencher.
On February 29, 2000, she held her inaugural speech.
Green Gross is currently (as of November 2012) Chairman ( Chair ) of four bipartisan coalitions of members of the House of Lords (so-called All- Party Parliamentary Groups): " Dementia", "Corporate Social Responsibility / Corporate Social Develepment " (since 2001), " Intergenerational Futures: Old & Young Together" (since 2008) and " Incontinence / Continence Care" ( since 2008). She is Vice-Chair ( Co - Chair ) of the All- Party Parliamentary Group " Ageing and Older People "; it is further Treasurer ( Treasurer ) of the All- Party Parliamentary Group " Equalities ".
Honors
1993 Green Gross was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
Green Gross is the recipient of 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 ( 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 sources: since 1994) and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries ( 2000).
From the International Women's Forum, she was elected "UK Woman of Europe" (1990 ) and " Woman who Makes a Difference" (1998).
Private
On May 26, 1959 married Sir David Alan Green Gross ( born 1929 ). The marriage produced four children, three daughters and a son. Her hobbies Green Gross, life is in the country and music.