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Margot Ruth Aline Lister, Baroness Lister of Burtersett, CBE FAcSS (born 3 May 1949) is currently Professor of Social Policy at Loughborough University. She has written or contributed to a number of books, pamphlets and articles on poverty, social security and women’s citizenship.
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She was born to Dr Werner Bernard and Daphne (née Carter) Lister. She attended a private school and then the University of Essex, from which she graduated with a BA in sociology, and continued to an MA in multi-racial studies from the University of Sussex. She has also received honorary doctorates from the universities of Manchester (1987), Essex (2012) and Glasgow Caledonian University. After completing her MA she went to work for the Child Poverty Action Group.
She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1999 Birthday Honours and in 2009 she became a Fellow of the British Academy. She was appointed to the House of Lords as a Life Peer on 31 January 2011 as Baroness Lister of Burtersett, of Nottingham in the County of Nottinghamshire (Burtersett being the village her mother originated from). She sits as a member of the Labour Party.