Baroness Hogg

Sarah Hogg has extensive experience of business, government and the media, having worked at the highest level in all three sectors.

She was responsible for the economics coverage of a number of Britain’s most respected publications, including The Economist, The Times and the Daily Telegraph. She was involved in the start-up of The Independent, hiring and managing its award-winning business team from 1986 to 1989.

Thereafter Sarah Hogg was Head of the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit from 1990 to 1995 and was closely involved in the programmes of privatisation and private finance, performance measurement in public services and international economic issues. She was the Prime Minister’s closest adviser on the Uruguay round of trade negotiations.
She was a Governor of BBC between 2000 and 2004.

Board Mandates

Sarah Hogg has been Chairman of 3i Group, Europe’s largest private equity company, since 2002 and is a Senior Non-Executive Director of BG Group. She is also Chairman of Frontier Economics Ltd., a consultancy founded in 1999 to specialise in the provision of strategic competition advice and the economics of regulation. She is Deputy Chairman of the Financial Reporting Council and will become its Chairman in May 2010.

She has been a Non-Executive Director of GKN and also its Deputy Chairman, and a Non-Executive Director at the dual-listed company Carnival Corporation and Carnival plc. She has until recently been a Non-Executive Director of Cadbury plc.

She is a Governor of London Business School, Trustee of the Trusthouse Foundation and of St. Mary’s School in Ascot.

Awards

Baroness Hogg was created a Life Peer in the 1995 New Year’s Honours List. She received the CBI Lifetime Award for Women in Business in 2005.

She has received many scholarly awards and honorary fellowships.