Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark

Perry was educated at Wolverhampton Girls' High School and Girton College, Cambridge. In 1952 she married Oxford University lecturer George Perry, and had three sons and a daughter (Christopher, Timothy, Simon and Hilary). She became a teacher and philosophy lecturer, working in England, Canada and the USA.

Baroness Perry of Southwark

In 1970, Perry joined HM Inspectorate at the Department of Education and Science, and was appointed Chief Inspector in 1981. In 1986 she became Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of South Bank Polytechnic, and serving during its transition to a university became the first woman in history to run a British university. In 1994 she was elected President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge.[3] and served as Head of House for 7 years until 2001. She subsequently held other roles including pro-chancellor of the University of Surrey 2001-2005, Chair of Governors at Roehampton Institute 2001-2005 (which was granted university status in 2003).

In 1986, she collaborated with John Cassels and James Prior to create the Council for Industry and Higher Education (CIHE), which would become the National Centre for Universities and Business in 2013.

She has also been active in the Southwark Cathedral and Church of England community and the City of London. She was appointed by General Synod as chair of the review group examining the operation of the Crown Appointment Commission, the body which nominates Diocesan Bishops. The Perry Report "Working With The Spirit", was published in May 2001 and led to more transparent selection procedures for the appointment of Anglican Bishops.[4] She was Rector’s Warden of Southwark Cathedral from 1990-1995.

Perry was awarded the Freedom of the City of London in 1991. She was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics (2003-05), and chaired the Working Party on the Ethics of research involving animals.[5] She has also served as Chair of the Commission on Secondary Reorganisation for the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham; Chair of the Commission on Academies and Free Schools in the London Borough of Wandsworth; Co-chair of The Conservatives Public Services Commission, which reported in 2007; and Chair of the Governing Body of Kaplan College and Law School, in 2013.[6]

On 16 July 1991, she became a life peer as The Right Honourable Baroness Perry of Southwark, of Charlbury in the County of Oxfordshire.[7] She sits on the Conservative Party benches. She was appointed a Conservative Party Whip in the Lords in January 2011. She retired from the Lords on 26 May 2016.[8]

• National Conference of University Profs (2016- )
• Chair Governing Body Kaplan Collage (2014-15)
• Abbey Schools (2012-14)

• Co- Chairman Policy Group on Public Services, Cons Party (2006-07)
• Honorary Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers (2006)
• Chair of City and Guilds Quality and Standards Committee (2005-10)
• Patron: British Friends of Neve Shalom-Watat al Salaam (2005)
• Inquiry into Animals in Scientific Experiments, Nuffield Council on Bio-Ethics (2003-05)
• President, Foundation for Higher Education (2002-06)
• Ecclesiastical Committee (2002-16)
• President, Westminster & City Branch of Chartered Management Institute (2000-14)
• Vice President, City and Guilds of London Institute
• Vice President, British Youth Opera
• Governor of Gresham's School, Holt (2000-06)
• Governor, London South Bank Centre
• Chair of Governors and Trustee of Roehampton Institute, University of Surrey (2001-2006)
• Pro-Chancellor and Member of Council, University of Surrey (2001-06)
• President, Council for Independent Education (CIFE) (2000-13)

• C of E Rec Cp on Operation of Crown Appointments Committee (1999-2001)
• Alexander Stone Lecturer in Rhetoric, Glasgow (1999)
• Judges Panel on Citizen’s Chatter (1997-2004)
• Trustee, Cambridge University Foundation (1997-2006)
• Chairman All Party, Partly University Group (1996-2009)
• Royal Society Project Sci, Bd of Patron, 1995-2003
• Chair, Friends of Southwark Cath (1994-2002)
• Vice-President C&G (1994-99)
• Chairman DTI Export Group of Education and Training Sector (1993-98)
• National Adv. Council on Education and Training Targets (1993-98)
• Trustee, Daphne Jackson Memorial Trust
• Companion of the Institute of Management
• Board of Directors, South Bank Centre, (1992-94)
• Vice Chancellor South Bank University (1992-93)
• NI Hughter Education Council (1992-94)
• British Youth Opera (1992-)
• Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Bakers (1992)
• Freeman of the City of London (1992)
• Adv. on Police Training to Home Office (1991-93)
• Member Court, University of Bath (1991-99)
• Trustee, Bacon's City Technology College (1991-99)
• St Mark's Collage, Limpopo SA (1991)
• Rector's Warden Southward Cath (1990-94)

• ESRC (1988-91)
• FRSA (1988)
• Director South Bank Poly (1987-92)
• Governing Body Institute of Development Studies, Sussex Uni (1987-94)
• Member: Committee on International Co-Operation in Higher Education, British Council (1987-97)
• Chief Inspector, for Schools UK (1981)

• Staff Inspector (1975)
• HM Inspector of School (1970-86)

• Part time Lecturer in Education, Dept of Education Studies, Oxford University (1966-70)
• Tutor for Inservice Training, Berks (1966-70)
• Lecturer in Education (part time) University of Exeter (1962-66)
• University of Massachusetts at Salem, (1960-62)
• Lecturer in Philosophy: University of Manitoba (1957-59)
• Research Fellow, University of Manioba (1956-57)
• High School Evaluator, New England USA (1959-61)
• Teacher in English Secondary Schools, Canadian and American High Schools (1953-54 and 1959-61)

• Political Editorial Advisor at i-MAGAZINE
• Member of the Institute of Directors
• Member of the International Women's Forum
• Patron, Women's Engineering Society[11]
• Patron, St Mark’s School, Limpopo Province, South Africa

The list of appointments can be found in the Who's Who publication.

The Rt Hon Baroness Perry of Southwark has been awarded the following academic honorary doctorates and fellowships by university's world wide for her work.

• House of Lords Register of Interests: Baroness Perry of Southwark, parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk; accessed 1 April 2016.