Denise Kingsmill, Baroness Kingsmill

Denise Patricia Byrne Kingsmill, Baroness Kingsmill, of Holland Park in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea CBE ( born April 24, 1947 in Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand ) is a British business manager and politician of the Labour Party, which since 2006 as Life peeress is a member of the House of Lords.

Life

Denise Kingsmill, who immigrated as a child with her ​​parents in Wales, completed after attending the School Croesyceiliog a Studied anthropology and economics at Girton College, University of Cambridge. After studying law, she worked as a solicitor in a law firm, and dealt mainly with labor there.

Between 1997 and 2003 she was deputy chairman of the Commission for monopolies and mergers, the predecessor of the later Competition Commission, and was at that time Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

By Letters Patent of 1 June 2006 was raised to the peerage Denise Kingsmill as Life Peeress with the title Baroness Kingsmill, of Holland Park in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Shortly thereafter, took place on 15 June 2006 its introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords. In the upper house it belongs to the Group of the Labour Party.

In addition, it performs a number of functions in the private sector and is a member of the board of resulting from the merger of British Airways and Iberia Airline International Airlines Group and APR Energy plc. Since 5 May 2011, Baroness Kingsmill, who is also a columnist for the newspaper industry Management Today and deputy chairman of the advisory board of PricewaterhouseCoopers, also a member of the Supervisory Board of E.ON