Background
Rabbatts was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1955 and moved to England aged three.
Governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation
Rabbatts was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1955 and moved to England aged three.
She left school with five O-levels and attended evening classes to study for A-levels. She attended the London School of Economics and became a barrister in 1981.
Born in Jamaica, she moved to the United Kingdom at the age of three. Local government From 1987 she worked in local government, becoming Deputy Chief Executive of Hammersmith and Fulham in 1989. She became Chief Executive of Merton before being appointed to the post of Chief Executive of Lambeth in 1995.
There were significant improvements in housing, education, and council tax collection.
She made her name as the youngest council chief in the country. On leaving Lambeth, in March 2000, Rabbatts became Chief Executive of iMPOWER, a public sector consultancy, which she both founded and was co-chairman
Directorships and oversight Rabbatts was a Governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation from 1999 to 2001, but resigned upon her appointment to Channel 4 where she was Managing Director of Channel 4’s education programmes and business, 4Learning. She is a Governor at the London School of Economics, an Associate of The King"s Fund and on the board of directors at the British Council, In 2010 Rabbatts became a Trustee of Malaria Number More United Kingdom and later took over as the Chair of Trustees.
In February 2013 she was assessed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Woman"s Hour on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4.
Football On 3 May 2006, Rabbatts was appointed as the new Executive Deputy Chair of Millwall F.C., and on 27 October 2006 she was appointed as Executive Chairwoman of Millwall Holdings plc, taking over from Peter de Savary. On 22 December 2011, Rabbatts became the first woman to be appointed as a director of The Football Association. In October 2013 she criticised the make-up of the Football Association"s commission to improve the national team as being "all-white, all-male".
Rio Ferdinand was subsequently added to the commission.
On 1 June 2015, she resigned from Fédération internationale de football association"s anti-discrimination taskforce following Sepp Blatter"s re-election as president Media On 24 July 2011, she was the guest on Desert Island Discs on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4.
In April 2014, she was a judge in the British Broadcasting Corporation Woman"s Hour power list 2014.