Sally Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Huyton
The Right Honourable The Baroness Morgan of Huyton | |
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Official portrait, 2019 | |
Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge | |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office 1 October 2019 | |
Preceded by | Nicola Padfield |
Downing Street Director of Government Relations | |
In office 10 November 2001 – 12 May 2005 | |
Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
Preceded by | Anji Hunter |
Succeeded by | Ruth Turner |
Minister of State for Women | |
In office 11 June 2001 – 9 November 2001 Serving with Barbara Roche | |
Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
Preceded by | Tessa Jowell |
Succeeded by | Barbara Roche |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office 21 June 2001 Life Peerage | |
Political Secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | |
In office 1997–2001 | |
Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
Preceded by | Howell James |
Succeeded by | Robert Hill |
Personal details | |
Born | Sally Morgan (1959-06-28) 28 June 1959 (age 65) |
Political party | Labour |
Alma mater | Durham University King's College London |
Sally Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Huyton (born 28 June 1959), is a British Labour Party politician, and Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. She is the former Chair of Ofsted.[1][2]
Early life
Morgan was educated at Belvedere School for Girls, then a direct grant grammar school in Liverpool, and at Durham University, from where she graduated in 1980 with a BA in geography. After taking a Postgraduate Certificate in Education at King's College London in 1981, she worked as a teacher at Beverley School in New Malden, Surrey from 1981 to 1985. She later received an MA in Education from the Institute of Education, London. In the early 1980s, she was active in student politics. As a member of the Labour Students, she was an active member of the British Youth Council Executive Committee.[1][3]
Career
Political career
From 1985, she worked for the Labour Party at Walworth Road, under Neil Kinnock then later when John Smith became leader. She worked for the Party under Tony Blair before joining Blair's political office in 10 Downing Street following the 1997 general election.[3] She was made a life peer as Baroness Morgan of Huyton, of Huyton in the County of Merseyside, on 20 June 2001.[4]
She was Minister of State for Women in the Cabinet Office from June to November 2001 before rejoining 10 Downing Street as Director of Government Relations.[5] Her Cabinet Office responsibilities for equal opportunities and the women's unit were transferred to Barbara Roche.[6] She left Downing Street in 2005.[3] She was one of the three advisors Blair was most dependent upon, along with Jonathan Powell and Alastair Campbell.[7]
Business career
In April 2006 she was appointed a board member of the Olympic Delivery Authority. In November 2005 she was appointed as a non-executive director of The Carphone Warehouse Group plc,[8] as well as being a non-executive director of TalkTalk from 2005 to 2010, and on the Lloyds Pharmacy health care advisory panel.[9][10] She was a non-executive director of Southern Cross Healthcare from 2006 until it had severe financial problems in 2011, before the company declared insolvency the following year.[11][12] She also serves as Advisor to the Board of the children's charity and Academy Schools Chain Absolute Return for Kids (ARK)[8] and has been chair of the board of Trustees of The Future Leaders Trust, as well as its successor organisations, since 2006.[13]
In July 2017 Morgan was appointed as senior non-executive director of building and support services company Carillion, serving on the audit, business integrity, nomination, remuneration and sustainability committees.[14][15] The company, which had many large government contracts and 43,000 staff, went into liquidation in January 2018,[16] with the UK Government ordering a fast-track investigation into the directors to consider possible misconduct.[17][18]
Other work
In 2007 and 2008 Morgan chaired an inquiry into young adult volunteering, named The Morgan Inquiry, sponsored by the All-Party Parliamentary Scout Group and supported by The Scout Association.[19]
She was appointed chair of Ofsted by the Conservative-led government from March 2011 and left that post in autumn 2014.
Morgan is a trustee of the Education Policy Institute, a Westminster-based research institute.[20] She is on the board of the think tank Labour Together. [21]
Academic career
In February 2019, it was announced that Morgan would succeed Nicola Padfield as Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge in October 2019. She was officially admitted on 1 October, and is the college's 9th Master.[22]
Personal life
Morgan is married to barrister John Lyons, whom she met while at Durham. They have been married for 35 years and have two adult sons.[23]
References
- ^ a b "Sally Morgan – Morgan of Huyton". Debretts. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
- ^ "Ofsted chair Sally Morgan accuses No 10 of ousting non-Tories from posts". BBC. 1 February 2014. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
- ^ a b c Decca Aitkenhead (12 May 2005). "Behind closed doors". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 March 2010.
- ^ "No. 56254". The London Gazette. 25 June 2001. p. 7471.
- ^ The International Who's Who 2004. Psychology Press. 2003. p. 1169. ISBN 9781857432176.
- ^ Wintour, Patrick (10 November 2001). "Rival to succeed Hunter at No 10". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 1 May 2024.
- ^ Bower, Tom (2016). Broken Vows : Tony Blair : the Tragedy of Power. Faber & Faber. pp. 326–327. ISBN 9780571314201.
- ^ a b "What happened to Team Blair?". BBC News Online. 27 December 2007. Retrieved 27 March 2010.
- ^ Jon Swaine (27 November 2009). "Lords' expenses: Sally Morgan claimed £40,000 for London home". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
- ^ "Baroness Sally Morgan". Companies in the UK. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
- ^ Goodley, Simon (3 June 2011). "Southern Cross care fiasco sheds light on secretive world of private equity". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
- ^ "Southern Cross Healthcare Group plc". Companies House. Company No. 05328138. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
- ^ "Our Board". The Future Leaders Trust. 15 June 2013. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
- ^ Robinson, Jon (3 July 2017). "Former Tony Blair minister joins Carillion board". Insider. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
- ^ "Sally Morgan". Bloomberg. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
- ^ "Carillion to go into liquidation". BBC News. BBC. 15 January 2018. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
- ^ "Carillion directors to be investigated". BBC News. 16 January 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ^ Sillars, James (16 January 2018). "Carillion collapse: The key personnel at the firm". Sky News. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ^ The Morgan Inquiry (PDF) (Report). All-Party Parliamentary Scout Group. June 2008. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
- ^ "Baroness Morgan of Huyton - Education Policy Institute". epi.org.uk. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
- ^ Behind Labour Together (Report). June 2024. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ "Baroness Morgan of Huyton appointed Master of Fitzwilliam College". Fitzwilliam College. University of Cambridge. 27 February 2019. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
- ^ "Master". Fitzwilliam College Cambridge. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
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Preceded by | Minister of State for Women 2001 | Succeeded by |
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Preceded by | Political Secretary to the Prime Minister 1997–2001 | Succeeded by Robert Hill |
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