Jo Valentine, Baroness Valentine

Josephine " Jo " Clare Valentine, Baroness Valentine, of Putney in the London Borough of Wandsworth ( born December 8, 1958) is a British manager, who since 2003 Chief Executive Officer ( CEO) of First London and since 2005 a member of the House of Lords is.

Life

After visiting the St Paul 's Girls ' School ' graduated Jo Valentine studying mathematics and philosophy at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford. Then she began her professional career at Barings Bank, where she was the first female manager in corporate finance and planning. In 1988 she founded while a delegation of Barings Bank, the Public Private Partnership The Blackburn Partnership for planning the redesign of Blackburn after the crisis in the textile industry. In 1990 she moved to the industrial gases company The BOC Group as head of corporate finance and planning department before it with the Central London Partnership ( CLP) conducted a similar institution such as The Blackburn Partnership 1995.

In 1997 she moved to London as Managing First, a non-profit organization of companies to improve the economic situation in London by contact with the national and local government. In addition, Jo Valentine, which has since been Chief Executive Officer 2003 ( CEO) of London First, between 2000 and September 2005 Member of the National Lottery Commission.

On October 10, 2005, she was raised by a Letters Patent as Life Peeress with the title Baroness Valentine, of Putney in the London Borough of Wandsworth in the peerage. On 25 October 2005 their introduction ( Introduction) followed as a member of the House of Lords. In the upper house it belongs to the group of non-party peers, the so-called Cross Bencher.

In addition, committed to Baroness Valentine as a member of the Boards of the TP70 2008 ( ii ) VCT plc and Peabody Trust and as an Honorary Fellow of St Hugh 's College.