Dido Harding
 Baroness Harding of Winscombe      (businesswoman) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Diana Mary Harding 1967-11-09 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | British | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Oxford, Harvard Business School | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parents | Lord Harding | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Children | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | John Penrose | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Party | Conservative | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Diana Mary "Dido" Harding, Baroness Harding of Winscombe (born 9 November 1967) is an English businesswoman who is Chair of NHS Improvement.[1] She is married to Conservative Party MP John Penrose and has two children.[2]
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Senior Executive
Dido Harding was named CEO of TalkTalk in 2010,[3] during the period when the group split its Carphone Warehouse retail operation from the group telecoms operation.[4] She was appointed Non Executive Director at the Bank of England in July 2014.[5]
In October 2015, TalkTalk experienced a "significant and sustained cyber-attack", during which personal and banking details of up to four million customers is thought to have been accessed.[6] City A.M. described her responses as "naive", noting that early on when asked if the affected customer data was encrypted or not, she replied: "The awful truth is that I don’t know". Her "inflexible line" on termination fees was also criticised.[7] Marketing magazine ran a headline, "TalkTalk boss Dido Harding's utter ignorance is a lesson to us all".[8] The Evening Standard noted that "It has been a tough week for TalkTalk boss Dido Harding, facing complaints from customers and calls for her head."[9] The company admitted the hack had cost it £60 million and lost it 95,000 customers.[10]
In February 2017, Baroness Harding announced she would stand down after seven years as CEO of TalkTalk in May 2017, to focus more on her public service activities.[11]
NHS Improvement
In October 2017 Baroness Harding was appointed chair of NHS Improvement, which is responsible for overseeing all NHS hospitals, comprising foundation trusts and NHS trusts, as well as independent providers that provide NHS-funded care.[12]
In May 2020, Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced that Baroness Harding was to be put in charge of the "Track, Test and Trace" effort as part of the UK government's response to the COVID-19/Pandemic.[13]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2016 | 9 June 2016 | 12 June 2016 | Germany Dresden | The 2016 Bilderberg meeting took place in Dresden, Germany. |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:Britain’s creeping cronyism | Article | 1 September 2020 | Richard Norton-Taylor | The culture of the Johnson government may be very different from that of Whitehall’s “permanent government”. But the two have one thing in common, lack of accountability and addiction to official secrecy. |
| Document:Senior spy appointed to lead UK’s joint biosecurity centre | Article | 5 June 2020 | Helen Warrell Sarah Neville | Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at Edinburgh University, says: “The virus is not worried that you’re tracking its progress, it’s not going to change its tactic. Cybersecurity is not your worry with a virus. It’s a biological phenomenon.” |
| Document:Track and Trace. Stay Elite. | Article | 29 May 2020 | David Black | Poor Dido was pressed into service early by Boris and the lads when she launched her Track and Trace initiative some days ahead of its scheduled June 1st slot in a ludicrously transparent attempt to draw fire from Corporal Cummings, whose lockdown breaching escapades were causing havoc in Tory ranks. |
| Document:Why the NHS Covid-19 contact tracing app failed | Article | 19 June 2020 | Matt Burgess | On 18 June 2020, Matt Hancock announced that the planned centralised NHS Covid-19 contact tracing app, which has been trialled on the Isle of Wight and downloaded by tens of thousands of people, has been ditched in favour of a decentralised system developed by Google and Apple. |
References
- ↑ "Baroness Dido Harding - NHS Improvement"
- ↑ "Dido Harding on Linkedin"
- ↑ "CEO TalkTalk"
- ↑ "Ex-Tesco high-flier Dido Harding to head demerged TalkTalk"
- ↑ "Court of Directors"
- ↑ "TalkTalk cyber-attack: Boss 'very sorry for security breach'"
- ↑ "cityam"
- ↑ "TalkTalk boss Dido Harding's utter ignorance is a lesson to us all"
- ↑ "City Spy: The TalkTalk hack is just another 'occupational hazard'"
- ↑ "TalkTalk hack toll: 100k customers and £60m"
- ↑ "TalkTalk chief executive Dido Harding to step down"
- ↑ "New chair of NHS Improvement revealed"
- ↑ "Delighted that @didoharding has agreed to step up to lead our vital cross-govt Test and Trace"
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