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 the first woman to become Chairman of a FTSE 100 company, and has sat on eight other FTSE 100 Boards.

Early in her career, Sarah 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.

BOARD MANDATES
Sarah Hogg is Chairman of Financial Reporting Council since May 2010.  She is Senior Non-Executive Director of BG Group and a Non-Executive Director of John Lewis Partnership.  She is also Chairman of Frontier Economics Ltd.

She is a member of the Takeover Panel (UK), Senior Independent Director of the UK Treasury and a Senior Advisor to the UK Financial Services Authority.

She was Chairman of 3i Group, Europe’s largest listed private equity company, from 2002-2010.  Other Boards of which she has been a member include GKN, the dual-listed company Carnival Corporation and Carnival plc, and Cadbury plc. 

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