| 词条 | Usha Prashar, Baroness Prashar |
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|honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable |name = The Baroness Prashar |honorific-suffix ={{postnominals|size=100%|country=GBR|CBE|PC}} |image = |imagesize = |smallimage = |caption = |office = Chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission |term_start = 3 April 2006 |term_end = 7 February 2011 |predecessor = Office created |successor = Christopher Stephens |office1 = Chancellor of De Montfort University |1blankname1 = Vice-Chancellor |1namedata1 = Philip Tasker |term_start1 = 2000 |term_end1 = 2006 |predecessor1 = John White |successor1 = The Lord Alli |office2 = Members of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |term_start2 = 15 July 1999 Life Peerage |term_end2 = |birthname = Usha Kumari Prashar |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1948|06|29}} |birth_place = |death_date = |death_place = |nationality = British |restingplace = |restingplacecoordinates = |partner = |profession = }} Usha Kumari Prashar, Baroness Prashar, {{postnominals|country=GBR|sep=,|CBE|PC}} (born 29 June 1948) is a crossbench member of the House of Lords. Since the 1970s, she has served as a director or chairman of a variety of public and private sector organisations. She became the first chairman of the Judicial Appointments Commission upon its creation in April 2006. Early life and educationBorn in Kenya, she came to Yorkshire with her father Naurhia Lal Prashar and family in the 1960s. She was educated at the independent Wakefield Girls' High School, becoming head girl in 1967. Prashar read Politics at Leeds University, graduating in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, after which she undertook postgraduate studies in Social Administration at the University of Glasgow. CareerLady Prashar was a director of the Runnymede Trust from 1976 to 1984, a Fellow with the Policy Studies Institute from 1984 to 1986, and a director of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations from 1986 to 1991. She was executive chairman of the Parole Board of England and Wales from October 1997 to October 2000. Having been appointed a Civil Service Commissioner in 1990, she was First Civil Service Commissioner from August 2000 to 2005. Lady Prashar was chairman of the National Literacy Trust from 2001 to 2005. She is also a governor of the Ditchley Foundation, which organises conferences in Oxfordshire.[1] Lady Prashar is a trustee of Cumberland Lodge, an educational charity initiating fresh debate on the burning questions facing society.[2] Lady Prashar was a non-executive director of Channel Four Television Corporation from 1992 to 1999, of UNITE Group plc from 2001 to 2004, and became a non-executive director of ITV plc in February 2005. She became a governor of De Montfort University in 1996, and became its chancellor in 2001. She was appointed a trustee of the BBC World Service Trust in 2002, and is president of the Royal Commonwealth Society. She is deputy chair of the British Council.[3] Iraq InquirySince July 2009, Baroness Prashar has served on the Iraq Inquiry. She was sworn of the Privy Council the same year[4] to facilitate access to the classified information related to the Iraq War. UK Community FoundationsShe is the Honorary President of UK Community Foundations (UKCF), the umbrella organisation for all community foundations, providing philanthropic advice to clients and delivering UK-wide grant-making programmes. Honours and stylesHonoursShe was appointed to the Order of the British Empire as a Commander (CBE) in the 1995 New Year Honours,[5] and was made a life peer on 15 July 1999 as Baroness Prashar, of Runnymede, in the County of Surrey.[6]She recently conferred the Honorary Degree (D.Litt.) from Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) University ,Bhubaneswar Odisha, India. Styles of address
References1. ^The Ditchley Foundation: The Governors {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060926002401/http://www.ditchley.co.uk/page/64/the-governors.htm |date=26 September 2006 }} 2. ^Cumberland Lodge: Trustees {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110404015647/http://www.cumberlandlodge.ac.uk/aboutus/trustees_of_cumberland_lodge |date=4 April 2011 }} 3. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.britishcouncil.org/about/board|title=Our organisation {{!}} British Council|website=www.britishcouncil.org|language=en|access-date=2018-04-27}} 4. ^{{cite web |publisher=Privy Council Office |title=Privy Counsellors |url=https://privycouncil.independent.gov.uk/privy-council/privy-council-members/privy-counsellors/ |accessdate=30 December 2016}} 5. ^{{London Gazette |issue=53893 |date=31 December 1994 |page=10 |supp=y}} 6. ^{{London Gazette |issue=55559 |date=21 July 1999 |page=7857}} External links
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