Mary Ann Sieghart

Mary Ann Sieghart  link IMDB LinkedIn Twitter Website (Journalist, editor, radio presenter)
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Born	6 August 1961 Hammersmith, London, England
Nationality	UK
Alma mater	Cobham Hall School,Bedales School,Wadham College (Oxford)
Attended 2001 Bilderberg as assistant editor of The Times.

Mary Ann Corinna Howard Sieghart is an English author, journalist, radio presenter and former assistant editor of The Times, where she wrote columns about politics, social affairs and life in general. She has also written a weekly political column in The Independent.

She attended the 2001 Bilderberg meeting. By 2021, she is a Visiting Professor at King's College London, a place with major links to the intelligence community.

On BBC Radio 4, she has been a presenter of Start the Week and has also presented Fallout, Analysis, Profile, One to One and Beyond Westminster, as well as many one-off documentaries. She chaired the think tank Social Market Foundation from 2010 to 2020.

She has been a non-executive director of the Content Board of the UK "communications regulator" Ofcom, and is currently a Trustee and Chair of the Investment Committee of The Scott Trust (owner of The Guardian and The Observer) and non-executive director of two large FTSE investment trusts: Pantheon International and The Merchants Trust. In 2018, she was named as one of the Female FTSE 100 Women to Watch.

She was appointed a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, for the academic year 2018–19, where she researched The Authority Gap. She has since been an Associate Member of Nuffield College, Oxford (2019-20) and a Senior Academic Visitor at Oriel College, Oxford (2020-21).