Baroness Tessa Blackstone
She started her career teaching at the London School of Economics, later becoming Professor of Educational Administration at the Institute of Education, University of London and Master of Birkbeck College, University of London. During the Wilson and Callaghan Administration she was a member of the Central Policy Review Staff in the Cabinet Office. She has held research fellowships at the Centre for Studies in Public Policy and the Policy Studies Institute and visiting fellowships at Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Melbourne. She has also been Deputy Education Officer of the Inner London Education Authority.
In 1987 Tessa Blackstone was awarded a life peerage and subsequently served as Minister of State for Education & Employment and Minister for the Arts. She is a member of the Privy Council. She has chaired the Fabian Society, the Institute for Public Policy Research, the General Advisory Council of the BBC and the ballet board of the Royal Opera House, and has served on the governing bodies of numerous other organisations.
