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Name
  
Sarah Viscountess

Role
  
Economist


Spouse
  
Douglas Hogg (m. 1968)

Children
  
Charlotte Hogg

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Born
  
14 May 1946 (age 77) (
1946-05-14
)

Alma mater
  
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford

Parents
  
John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter

Education
  
University of Oxford, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford

Political party
  
Conservative Party, Crossbencher

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Sarah Hogg, Baroness Hogg (born 14 May 1946), through marriage the Viscountess Hailsham, is an English economist and journalist. She was the first woman to chair a FTSE 100 company.

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Biography

She was born as Sarah Elizabeth Mary Boyd-Carpenter, her father being John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter, a former Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster-General. She attended the Roman Catholic girls' boarding school St Mary's School Ascot. Later she attended Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford where she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE).

Through her 1968 marriage to Member of Parliament Douglas Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham, she is Viscountess Hailsham. However, following the granting of a life peerage in 1995, she is Baroness Hogg in her own right.

Journalism

She was an economics editor for The Independent newspaper. She was also an early presenter of Channel 4 News, but her voice, with its uncertainty of pitch, was felt by many viewers to be a distraction. At this time she portrayed Margaret Thatcher in a television docudrama of negotiations between the UK and Irish governments.

Politics

Hogg was the head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit for Sir John Major. With Jonathan Hopkin Hill, she wrote about the Major years in her book Too Close to Call.

In 1995, she was granted a life peerage and now sits as a crossbencher in the House of Lords as Baroness Hogg, of Kettlethorpe in the County of Lincolnshire.

Business

As Chairman of 3i Group from 2002, she became the first woman to chair an FTSE 100 company. In 2010 she was appointed the Chairman of the Financial Reporting Council. She is also the chairman of Frontier Economics Limited. Other current and former board memberships include the Financial Conduct Authority, BG Group, the BBC, P&O Cruises, P&O Princess, and Eton College.

Personal life

Hogg is married to the Douglas Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham and together they have two children:

  • Hon. Charlotte Mary Hogg (born 26 August 1970), previously in charge of retail operations at Santander UK, in 2013 she was appointed first Chief Operating Officer at the Bank of England, under Governor Mark Carney, and from March 2017, she served briefly as Deputy Governor (Markets and Banking) before resigning from both positions for failure to declare that her brother was employed in the banking industry.
  • Hon. Quintin John Neil Martin Hogg (born 12 October 1973), heir apparent to the viscountcy

    • Other activities

    She is a trustee of the school where she was educated and also a trustee of the charitable Trusthouse Foundation.

    Titles

  • Miss Sarah Boyd-Carpenter (1946–1968)
  • The Hon. Mrs Douglas Hogg (1968–1972)
  • The Hon. Mrs Hogg (1972–1995)
  • The Rt Hon. The Baroness Hogg (1995–2001)
  • The Rt Hon. The Baroness Hogg, Viscountess Hailsham (2001–)

    • References

    Sarah Hogg, Viscountess Hailsham Wikipedia
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