| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Viscountess Hailsham | |
| Office: | Member of the House of Lords |
| Status: | Lord Temporal |
| Term Label: | Life peerage |
| Term Start: | 3 February 1995 |
| Office1: | Director of the Number 10 Policy Unit |
| Term Start1: | 28 November 1990 |
| Term End1: | 5 July 1995 |
| Primeminister1: | John Major |
| Predecessor1: | Brian Griffiths |
| Successor1: | Norman Blackwell |
| Birth Name: | Sarah Elizabeth Mary Boyd-Carpenter |
| Birth Date: | 1946 5, df=yes |
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| Alma Mater: | Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford |
| Children: | 2 |
Sarah Elizabeth Mary Hogg, Viscountess Hailsham, Baroness Hogg (; born 14 May 1946), is a British economist, journalist, and politician. She was the first woman to chair a FTSE 100 company.
Sarah Elizabeth Mary Boyd-Carpenter was born on 14 May 1946.[1] Her father was John Boyd-Carpenter (later Baron Boyd-Carpenter), who served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General from 1962 to 1964. She attended Miss Ironside's School in Kensington.[2] She then went to the Roman Catholic girls' boarding school St Mary's School Ascot. Later she attended Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford where she read philosophy, politics and economics (PPE).[3] While at Oxford, she edited the student newspaper Cherwell.
Hogg was an economics editor for The Independent. She was also an early presenter of Channel 4 News, but her voice, with its uncertainty of pitch, was felt by many viewers to be a distraction.[4] At this time she portrayed Margaret Thatcher in a television docudrama of negotiations between the UK and Irish governments.[5]
Hogg was the head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit for Sir John Major.[6] With Jonathan Hopkin Hill, she wrote about the Major years in her book Too Close to Call.
On 3 February 1995, she was created a life peer as Baroness Hogg, of Kettlethorpe, in the county of Lincolnshire. She was as a Conservative member of the House of Lords until May 2010 and thereafter has sat as a crossbencher.[7]
As Chairman of 3i Group from 2002, she became the first woman to chair a FTSE 100 company.[8] In 2010 she was appointed the Chairman of the Financial Reporting Council.[9] She is also the chairman of Frontier Economics Limited.[8] Other current and former board memberships include the Financial Conduct Authority, BG Group, the BBC, P&O Cruises, P&O Princess, and Eton College.[10]
Hogg married Douglas Hogg in 1968. They have a son and a daughter.
Through her marriage, Hogg has been titled Viscountess Hailsham since her husband's succession to his hereditary peerage in 2001, and Baroness Hailsham of Kettlethorpe since his own creation as a life peer in 2015. She sits in the House of Lords under her suo jure title, Baroness Hogg.
She is a trustee of the school where she was educated and also a trustee of the charitable Trusthouse Foundation.