Baroness Sally Greengross

Baroness Greengross, co-chair of the Alliance for Health & the Future, is also executive chair of ILC - United Kingdom. In 2000 she was awarded a life peerage and appointed an independent member of the House of Lords.

In Parliament, she is a member of Sub-Committee F (Social Affairs, Education and Home Affairs) of the House of Lords European Union Select Committee and chairs the all-party group on Corporate Social Responsibility. She is also a member of a number of all-party groups, including those on Charities & Voluntary Sector, Ageing & Older People and Regeneration.

From 1987 to 2000, she was director general of Age Concern England, the largest charity working for and with older people, and remains vice president of the organisation. Until 2000, she was also joint chair of the Age Concern Institute of Gerontology at Kings College London and Secretary General of Eurolink Age. At Age Concern she established many innovative programmes including Age Resource, the Employer's Forum on Age, Ageing Well, Intergenerational Projects, the Exchange on Ageing, Law and Ethics (EAGLE) and the Debate of the Age. She also built up Age Concern Enterprises into a multi-million pound business.

She is a vice chair of the Britain in Europe campaign. Since 2000, she has been a board member of HelpAge International and holds honorary positions with a wide range of national and international charities and voluntary bodies. Baroness Greengross acts as an adviser to several companies on ageing issues, including the Merck Institute of Ageing and Health and the Pfizer Healthy Ageing programme.

Baroness Greengross is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, the Institute of Actuaries and the Royal Society of Health Promotion. She has been awarded honorary doctorates from the Open University, Exeter University, University of Ulster, Kingston University/St George's Medical School, Brunel University and Leeds Metropolitan University. In 1990 she was voted UK Woman of Europe.