Diana Barran, Baroness Barran

Diana Francesca Caroline Clare Barran, Baroness Barran, MBE (born 10 February 1959) is a British charity campaigner, former hedge fund manager and Conservative Party life peer. She is the founder of the domestic abuse awareness charity SafeLives and served as its chief executive from 2004 to 2017.

The Right Honourable

The Baroness Barran

MBE
Barran in 2018
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Civil Society
Assumed office
26 July 2019
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded byThe Lord Ashton of Hyde
Baroness-in-Waiting
Government Whip
In office
22 November 2018 – 26 July 2019
Prime MinisterTheresa May
Preceded byThe Baroness Manzoor
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
2 July 2018
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born (1959-02-10) 10 February 1959
Political partyConservative
Alma materKing's College, Cambridge

Career

Barran worked as an investment banker in London and Paris for Morgan Grenfell and Enskilda Asset Management and founded the hedge fund Barran and Partners in 1993. Barren left Beaumont Capital in 2001 shortly before its sale to Schroders. Barran owned 10% of Beaumont Capital at the time of her departure.[1]

Barran is a former trustee of Comic Relief and a former chair of the Henry Smith Society. Barran has worked as the head of grant development for New Philanthropy Capital and as the firms donor adviser.[2]

She was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for DCMS by Boris Johnson in the Johnson ministry. She is responsible for the department's business in the Lords and First World War commemorations.[3]

Barran assumed the "loneliness porfolio" in 2019, taking on the role of "Minister of Loneliness" that former Prime Minister Theresa May established in 2018 and which Tracey Crouch and later Mims Davies had held. The position aimed to address the crisis of loneliness in British society that a 2017 commission initiated by Jo Cox had investigated.[4]

Personal life

Barran is married with four children.[2] She was educated at Benenden School and King's College, Cambridge.[5]

Honours and awards

In the 2011 Birthday Honours, Barran was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).[6][2]

In May 2018, it was announced that she will be conferred a life peerage.[7][8] On 21 June, she was created Baroness Barran, of Bathwick in the City of Bath.[9]

Barran was on the list of the BBC's 100 Women announced on 23 November 2020.[10]

References
  1. "Barran puts family before windfall". The Evening Standard. 11 December 2001. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  2. "Meet the team: Diana Barren". Comic Relief. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  3. "Parliamentary Under Secretary of State - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  4. Birnstengel, Grace. "Two years after hiring a Minister of Loneliness, people in the U.K. are still lonely". MarketWatch. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
  5. "BARRAN, Baroness (Diana Francesca Caroline Barran)". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. 2019 (online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription or UK public library membership required) (subscription required)
  6. "No. 59808". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 June 2011. p. 13.
  7. "Queen confers Peerages". gov.uk. 18 May 2018. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
  8. Dan Sabbagh (18 May 2018). "May names nine new Tory peers to boost party after Brexit defeats". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  9. "No. 62337". The London Gazette. 27 June 2018. p. 11404.
  10. "BBC 100 Women 2020: Who is on the list this year?". BBC News. 23 November 2020. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
Political offices
Preceded by
Mims Davies		 Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Civil Society and Loneliness
2019–present		 Incumbent
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