Background
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.
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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 Street Mary"s School Ascot, although not herself Catholic. Later she attended Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford where she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics (Group of the European People's Party (Christian-Democratic Group)).
She was the first woman to chair of a FTSE 100 company. 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 United Kingdom 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 of a 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 Black Gold Group, the British Broadcasting Corporation, P&O Cruises, P&O Princess, and Eton College.
She is a trustee of the school where she was educated and also a trustee of the charitable Trusthouse Foundation.
