Chair - Baroness Rennie Fritchie DBE
Baroness Fritchie, DBE, (known as Rennie Fritchie) was educated at Ribston Hall Grammar School for Girls in Gloucester, and has had a long career specialising in training and development. Rennie holds various positions, including President of the Pennell Initiative for Women’s Health in Later Life. In addition Rennie has had wide ranging experience in the NHS being a former Chair of the Gloucester Health Authority and of the South and West Regional NHS Executive. She has also served on the NHS Policy Board and is a former lay member of The General Medical Council.
In the 1970's she was one of the first full time women's Training Advisors. In recent years she has specialised in Leadership, Strategy, Governance and Conflict Resolution. She has published extensively on these topics and contributes on them regularly in lectures as well as to programmes on radio and television.
She holds an honorary Professorship in Creative Leadership at York University, is a former Pro-Chancellor at Southampton University and is Vice-Chair of the Stroud and Swindon Building Society until May 2008. Active in a number of charities, Rennie Fritchie has been awarded honorary degrees by a number of academic institutions. Rennie Fritchie became a Dame in 1996. In 2005 she was made a life peer as Baroness Fritchie, of Gloucester in the County of Gloucestershire, and she sits as an Independent crossbencher in the House of Lords.




