Patience Wheatcroft, Baroness Wheatcroft
Patience Wheatcroft, Baroness Wheatcroft, of Blackheath in the London Borough of Greenwich ( born September 28, 1951) is a British journalist, manager and politician of the Conservative Party, which was from 2009 to 2010 editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe and since 2011 a member the House of Lords.
Life
Journalist and climb to the chief editor of the Wall Street Journal Europe
Patience Wheatcroft worked after school as a journalist and worked first 1972-1973 Chamber of Commerce in London, before she was until 1976 a reporter and news editor for the trade magazine Estates Times. In 1976, she joined as a reporter for the Daily Mail, then in 1977 as a reporter for The Sunday Times and 1982-1983 as a financial editor at Working Woman.
At the same time Patience Wheatcroft was between 1982 and 1984 deputy editor for urban news at The Times. She founded in 1988 together with her husband Tony Salter, the trade magazine Retail Week, for which she worked as a consulting editor until 1994. At the same time she worked from 1990 to 1995 as a profile writer for The Daily Telegraph and was subsequently deputy editor for urban news of the Mail on Sunday, before it was urban and business editor of The Times between 1997 and 2006. Between 2006 and September 2007, she worked as an editor for The Sunday Telegraph, before 2009, editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal Europe in June and this function held until November 2009.
In the meantime, they also took positions in the private economy and has since January 1, 2008 the board of Barclays plc and Shaftesbury.
House of Lords member and other functions
She was raised by a Letters Patent as Life Peeress titled Baroness Wheatcroft, of Blackheath in the London Borough of Greenwich to the peerage on December 22, 2010. 10 January 2011 was followed by their introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords, where it belongs to a faction of the Conservative Party.
In addition to her political activity in the Lords, it is a member of the Board of the Financial Services Institute St James 's Place plc and the automaker Fiat SpA and economic advisor to the right consulting firm DLA Piper. Furthermore, Baroness Wheatcroft, who works as before as a freelance journalist for The Times, member of the British Advisory Board of the technology group Huawei, and the financial and communications firm Pelham Bell Pottinger.
Furthermore committed to Baroness Wheatcroft as a member of the British - Indian Round Table, as well as a Visiting Fellow of the Centre for Corporate Communications (Centre for Corporate Reputation ) of the University of Oxford and a trustee of the British Museum and the think tank Policy Exchange. It also acts as a member of the advisory boards of the British Olympic Society and the Reuters Institute for journalism studies.