Career
Shireen Ritchie was a Kensington and Chelsea Councillor from 1998 representing the Brompton ward on the Council. In 2008, she provided testimony as part of the Home Affairs Committee hearings on Trade in Human Beings. Appeals Panel (Chairman)
Kensington & Chelsea Partnership Steering Group
Health and Well-Being Partnership Board (ex officio)
Joint Health Commissioning Board
Supporting People Commissioning Body
Borough Voluntary Organisations Advisory Group
Stable Way Advisory Group
Outside organisations:
Local Government Association General Assembly
London Councils (Children and Young People Forum)
London Councils Grants Committee (Deputy)
William Petyt Charity
London Youth Crime Prevention Board
On 25 June 2010, she was created a life peer as Baroness Ritchie of Brompton, of Brompton, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, and she was introduced in the House of Lords on 29 June 2010.
Shireen (née Folkard) spent her early life in Yemen where her father was a British diplomat.