The Rt Hon Baroness Gillian Shephard

Biography

Baroness Gillian Shephard was a government minister from 1989 to 1997, serving as Secretary of State for the Department of Employment, the Department of Education and the Department of Education and Employment, and as Minister of State at HM Treasury and Parliamentary under Secretary of State at the Department of Social Security.

Baroness Shephard became a peer in 2005 and served as Chair of the Association of Conservative Peers, sat on the Lords Reform Select Committee, the Mental Capacity Select Committee and the Affordable Childcare Select Committee.

She is Chair of the Council of the Institute of Education and holds honorary fellowships of St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and Queen Mary University of London.