Sarah Hogg, Viscountess Hailsham

Sarah Elizabeth Mary Hogg, Viscountess Hailsham, Baroness Hogg, of Kettle Thorpe in the County of Lincolnshire (birth name: Sarah Elizabeth Mary Boyd - Carpenter, born May 14, 1946) is a British journalist and politician of the Conservative Party, as Life Peeress since 1995 member of the House of Lords.

Life

Journalist and member of Prime Minister John Major

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

She then moved as a business editor for the Sunday newspaper The Sunday Times, before it was from 1983 to 1986 a member of the business section of the newspaper The Times. In the meantime, she worked 1982-1983 as announcer and business reporter at Channel 4 television and was later director from 1985 to 1990 both the London Broadcasting Co. and Governor of the Centre for Economic Policy Research.

1985 elected the Wincott Foundation, she Financial Journalist of the Year. In addition, it was from 1986 to 1989 deputy editor, Economic and financial editor of the daily The Independent, between 1987 and 1990 at the same time director of the Royal National Theatre and, most recently from 1989 to 1990 business editor at The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph.

1990 Sarah Hogg, which was awarded in 1987 by The Open University a Master of Arts honoris causa ( Hon MA), appointed in 10 Downing Street, in the rank of Second Permanent Secretary of Prime Minister John Major as Head of the Political unit and remained in this position until in 1995.

House of Lords member

By Letters patent of 3 February 1995 Sarah Hogg was in 1992 an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Loughborough University came when Life Peeress charged with the title Baroness Hogg, of Kettle Thorpe in the County of Lincolnshire in the peerage. Shortly afterwards, was their introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords. In the upper house it belonged to the faction of the Conservative Party, but is now a member of the group of the so-called Cross Bencher.

In the following years it was between 1995 and 1998 Member of the Council of the Hansard Society and from 1996 to 1999 Member of the House of Lords Committee on Science and Technology and at the same time between 1996 and 2005 Member of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

Business manager

In addition took Baroness Hogg, who was from 1996 to 2009 Fellow of Eton College, numerous functions in the private sector. So it was in 1995 director of the Foreign and Colonial Small Companies, the moderator from 1997 to 2002. In addition, she served between 1996 and 2006 as a member of the Board of GKN plc, whose vice chairman, she was most recently from 2003 to 2006, and between 1996 and 1999 of the National Provident Institution. Furthermore, it was from 1997 to 1999 chairman of London Economics and 1999-2002 Member of the Council of the Marie Curie Trust portfolio and since 1999 has been chairman of Frontier Economics.

Baroness Hogg, the 1999-2000 only member of the Supervisory Board of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company ( P & O ) and then was up in 2003 by P & O Cruises, functioned between 2000 and 2005 as a member of the BBC Board of Governors and 2001 received another honorary doctorate from the University of London.

In the period from 2000 to 2003 Baroness Hogg was, who is also Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, and in 2002 awarded an honorary doctorate from the City University London was a member of the House of Lords Committee on monetary policy. At the same time it was from 2002 to 2010 chairman of the private equity firm 3i and between 2003 and 2008 board member of Carnival Corporation & plc and from 2005 to 2010 a member of the Council of the London Business School.

Since 2005 she is also a member of the Supervisory Board of the energy company BG Group and also a member of the Council for Financial Reporting ( Financial Reporting Council ), whose chairman is since 2010. It also acts since 2010 as Senior ndustriedirektorin of the royal household (HM Treasury ) and since 2011 as a board member of John Lewis plc.

Her husband, Douglas Hogg in 2001 after the death of his father Quintin Hogg 3rd Viscount Hailsham McGarel.

Publications

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