Equality and Human Rights Commission

Baroness Sally Greengross OBE was reappointed as a commissioner for the Equality and Human Rights Commission on 4 December 2009, having started as a commissioner on 5 December 2006.

She has been a crossbench (independent) member of the House of Lords since 2000 and Chairs four All-Party Parliamentary Groups: Dementia, Corporate Social Responsibility, Intergenerational Futures: Old & Young Together, and Continence Care. She is the Vice Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia and Ageing and Older People, and is Treasurer of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Equalities.

Sally is Chief Executive of the International Longevity Centre UK. She is Chair of the Advisory Groups for the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing (ELSA) and the New Dynamics of Ageing (NDA). Sally is President of the Pensions Policy Institute and Honorary Vice President of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health.

Sally was Director General of Age Concern England from 1987 until 2000. Until 2000, she was joint Chair of the Age Concern Institute of Gerontology at Kings College London, and Secretary General of Eurolink Age. At Age Concern, she established many innovative programmes, including the Employment Forum on Age, and was also responsible for building Age Concern Enterprises into a multi-million-pound business.

Sally holds honorary doctorates from seven UK universities.

She declared that she has not engaged in any Party political activity in the past five years when responding to the political activity questionnaire.