The Rt Hon Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean, PC

Foretitle(s): Baroness (Life Peer UK 1996), of Vernham Dean in the County of Hampshire;
Surname: SYMONS OF VERNHAM DEAN
Style: The Rt Hon Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean, PC
Recreations: reading, gardening, entertaining friends

Career: res Girton Coll Cambridge 1972-74, admin trainee DOE 1974-77, dep gen sec Inland Revenue Staff Fedn (ISRF) 1988-89 (asst sec 1977-88), gen sec Assoc of First Div Civil Servants 1989-96; sits as Labour peer in House of Lords 1996-, Parly under-sec of state FCO 1997-99, min of state MOD 1999-2001, min of state FCO 2001-05, dep ldr House of Lords 2001-05; non-exec dir British Airways plc 2005-; memb: Gen Cncl TUC 1989-96, Civil Serv Coll Advsy Cncl, Cncl Hansard Soc 1993-97, Exec Cncl Campaign for Freedom of Information, Cncl The Industrial Soc, Cncl Open Univ, Panel 2000; cmmr Equal Opportunities Cmmn, govr London Business Sch 1995-97, tstee IPPR 1994-97; hon assoc Nat Cncl of Women 1990-97, co-chm Women's Nat Commn 1997-; FRSA