Background
Whitbread was born on 1 September 1963. Her mother, Ursula Whitbread, is Swiss and her father, Gerald Whitbread, is English.
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Whitbread was born on 1 September 1963. Her mother, Ursula Whitbread, is Swiss and her father, Gerald Whitbread, is English.
She was educated at Kneller Girls" School, then an all-girls comprehensive school in Twickenham, London. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Bachelor Honours) degree in 1986. In 1997, she completed the Executive Program at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.
Since 2010, she has been Chief Executive Officer of the charity Save the Children International. She is a non-executive director of the British Telecom Group and the bank Standard Chartered. In 1983, she matriculated into the University of Bristol to study English.
She later returned to university study.
Whitbread began her career in marketing rather than the charity sector. From 1986 to 1988, she was a marketing manager at RT2 Computer Services.
She then moved to the United States and was director of global marketing at Cortex Corporation. From 1990 to 1992, she was in Uganda with the Voluntary Service Overseas and was a management trainer at the National Union of Disabled Persons of Uganda.
From 1994 to 1999, she was a managing director of Thomson Financial.
She then joined Oxfam Great Britain, where she was Regional Director for West Africa from 1999 to 2002, then International Director from 2002 to 2005. In 2005, she joined Save the Children United Kingdom as Chief Executive Officer (Chief Executive Officer). She is the first woman to head the charity.
After five years, she was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Save the Children International.
She is due to step down from the role on 31 December 2015. On 19 January 2011, she was appointed to the board of British Telecom as a non-executive director
On 1 April 2015, she was appointed an independent non-executive director of Standard Chartered.