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The Baroness Neuberger DBE
BARONESS NEUBERGER DBE was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge and Leo Baeck College, London. She became a rabbi in 1977, and served the South London Liberal Synagogue for twelve years, before going to the King’s Fund Institute as a Visiting Fellow, to work on research ethics committees in the United Kingdom. She then became a fellow at Harvard Medical School in 1991-1992, having gone to the United States on a Harkness Fellowship. She was Chairman of Camden & Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust from April 1993 until November 1997, when she became Chief Executive of the King’s Fund, an independent health charity, until January 2004. She was a member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life (the Wicks Committee) until April 2004, is currently a Trustee of the Imperial War Museum and of the British Council, as well as of the Booker Prize Foundation. She has been a member of the General Medical Council, the Medical Research Council, a trustee of the Runnymede Trust and a member of the Board of Visitors of Memorial Church, Harvard University. She was a Civil Service Commissioner from 2001-2002. She holds honorary doctorates from ten universities, is an honorary fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford, and was Chancellor of the University of Ulster from 1994 - 2000. She also became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in July 2004. She is also the author of several books on Judaism, women, healthcare ethics and on caring for dying people, and her new book, The Moral State We’re In, was published in March 2005. She broadcasts frequently, and writes articles on a variety of subjects. She was created a Life Peer from June 2004 (Liberal Democrat). In her spare time she likes swimming, gardening, family life, opera and Irish life.
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