Mary Ann Sieghart
Mary Ann Sieghart | |
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Born | Hammersmith, London, England | 6 August 1961
Occupation(s) | Journalist, broadcaster |
Notable credit(s) | The Times Newshour The Independent |
Spouse | David |
Children | 2 |
Relatives | William Sieghart (brother) |
Mary Ann Corinna Howard Sieghart (born 6 August 1961)[1] 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. Her best-selling book, The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It, was published by Transworld/Doubleday in July 2021.
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.[2] She is a visiting professor at King's College London and chaired the Social Market Foundation, an independent think tank, from 2010 to 2020.[1] She has been a non-executive director of the Ofcom Content Board, a member of the Tate Modern Council, and is currently a Non-Executive Director of the Guardian Media Group, non-executive director of two large FTSE investment trusts: Pantheon International and The Merchants Trust plc, and a Trustee of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the Kennedy Memorial Trust. She was Chair of Judges for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022. In 2018, she was named as one of the Female FTSE 100 Women to Watch.[3]
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). She is now a visiting professor at King's College London.
Personal life
Sieghart was born in
Sieghart suffers from prosopagnosia, which makes it difficult to recognize familiar faces.[7] Her mother, husband, and one of her children suffer from the same condition.[8]
Career
Sieghart's abilities were admired by Bill Deedes. Deedes hired her to work at The Daily Telegraph during the 1980 university summer vacation, where she spent time sub-editing, working on the "Peterborough" column and on features. She returned for subsequent vacations and again took on various roles, including writing some leaders. Deedes notes that "Let loose on the leader page, Mary Ann wove a sometimes startling liberal thread through the Daily Telegraph's blue tapestry." He offered her a job on graduation but simultaneously advised her to apply elsewhere because the Daily Telegraph was in financial trouble.[9]
After Oxford, Sieghart joined the
In 1988, she joined
In 2003,
Sieghart is a regular broadcaster. She was an occasional presenter of
Other activities
Sieghart is visiting professor at
References
- ^ a b c d "Mary Ann Corinna Howard SIEGHART". Debrett's People of Today. Archived from the original on 6 August 2014. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
- ^ a b "Mary Ann Sieghart". Ofcom. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
- ^ "Female FTSE Index". www.cranfield.ac.uk.
- ^ Felicity Ann Sieghart obituary, The Times, 11 June 2019
- ^ The Independent, 28 April 1997, Media Families: 11. The Siegharts, Mary Ann Sieghart and her daughter, Evie Prichard; William Sieghart and his wife, Molly Dineen
- ^ "Freedom and security". Wadham College. 22 February 2016.
- ^ "Photos: The faces of those who don't recognize faces". CNN. 23 May 2013.
- ^ Kelly Strange "Everyone looks the same to me", Mirror.co.uk website, 9 November 2007. Retrieved 15 April 2008.
- ISBN 978-0-330-35410-3.
- ^ Bill Hagerty "Uphill fight for rolling news", Archived 12 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine Press Gazette website, 11 April 2003. Retrieved 9 August 2008.
External links
- Official website
- "Mary Ann Sieghart | The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men..." YouTube. Author Events (Free Library of Philadelphia). 23 February 2022. (in conversation with Tracey Matisak, broadcast journalist formerly of WTXF-TV)
- "The Authority Gap w/ Mary Ann Sieghart". Talk Nerdy. 14 March 2022. (hosted by Cara Santa Maria)
- "The Authority Gap with Mary Ann Sieghart". YouTube. Liberal Voice for Women. 15 March 2022. (in conversation with Councillor Alison Jenner, civil parish of Cumnor in Oxfordshire)