Mary Ann Sieghart
Senior Independent Director
Board Appointment: 30 October 2019
Member of the Audit Committee, Member of the Nomination Committee, Member of the Management Engagement Committee, Independent of the Manager.
Ms Sieghart is a Non-Executive Director of the Guardian Media Group and a Trustee of the Kennedy Memorial Trust and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
Ms Sieghart was formerly a Non-Executive Director of The Merchants Trust Plc and the Henderson Smaller Companies Investment Trust Plc, and until 2022 was the Chair of the Investment Committee of the Scott Trust, overseeing its £1.2bn endowment.
Ms Sieghart is also a consultant, broadcaster and author of The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It. She is Founding Partner of The Authority Gap Consultancy. She was formerly Assistant Editor of The Times, a Lex columnist at the Financial Times and City Editor of Today. She is a Visiting Professor of King’s Business School and also spent the academic year 2018–19 as a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
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