Mary Ann Sieghart
 Mary Ann Sieghart        ( journalist, editor, radio presenter) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 6 August 1961 Hammersmith, London, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | UK | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | • Cobham Hall School • Bedales School • Wadham College (Oxford) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Attended 2001 Bilderberg as assistant editor of The Times.
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Mary Ann Corinna Howard Sieghart [1] is an English author, journalist, radio presenter and former assistant editor of The Times, where she wrote columns about politics, social affairs and life in general. She has also written a weekly political column in The Independent.
She attended the 2001 Bilderberg meeting. By 2021, she is a Visiting Professor at King's College London, a place with major links to the intelligence community.[2]
On BBC Radio 4, she has been a presenter of Start the Week and has also presented Fallout, Analysis, Profile, One to One and Beyond Westminster, as well as many one-off documentaries.[3] She chaired the think tank Social Market Foundation from 2010 to 2020.[1]
She has been a non-executive director of the Content Board of the UK "communications regulator" Ofcom, and is currently a Trustee and Chair of the Investment Committee of The Scott Trust (owner of The Guardian and The Observer) and non-executive director of two large FTSE investment trusts: Pantheon International and The Merchants Trust. In 2018, she was named as one of the Female FTSE 100 Women to Watch.[4]
She was appointed a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, for the academic year 2018–19, where she researched The Authority Gap. She has since been an Associate Member of Nuffield College, Oxford (2019-20) and a Senior Academic Visitor at Oriel College, Oxford (2020-21).
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2001 | 24 May 2001 | 27 May 2001 | Sweden Stenungsund | The 49th Bilderberg, in Sweden. Reported on the WWW. |
References
- ↑ Jump up to: a b https://archive.today/20140806055238/http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/15028/Mary-Ann-Corinna-Howard-SIEGHART
- ↑ https://www.kcl.ac.uk/giwl/who/visiting-faculty
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20140808041754/http://www.ofcom.org.uk/about/how-ofcom-is-run/content-board/members/mary-ann-sieghart
- ↑ https://www.cranfield.ac.uk/som/research-centres/gender-leadership-and-inclusion-centre/female-ftse-index
