Sally Greengross, Baroness Greengross[1] (born Sally Ralea Rosengarten 29 Jun 1935) is a British politician. Sally Greengross was raised to the peerage as Baroness Greengross, of Notting Hill in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in the year 2000.[2]
Greengross was educated at Brighton and Hove School and the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 1959 she married Sir Alan Greengross and they have three daughters and one son.[3][4]
Baroness Greengross has been an independent crossbench member of the House of Lords since 2000 and chairs three All-Party Parliamentary Groups: 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. In December 2006, it was announced that she would be a Commissioner for the Equality and Human Rights Commission. She was Director General of Age Concern England from 1987 until 2000; also until 2000, she was joint Chair of the Age Concern Institute of Gerontology at King's College London, and Secretary General of Eurolink Age.[5] Her appointments include that of Chair of the Advisory Groups for the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) and the New Dynamics of Ageing (NDA); and Chief Executive of the International Longevity Centre - UK, President of the Pensions Policy Institute and Honorary Vice President of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health. She holds honorary doctorates from seven British universities.
Baroness Greengross has volunteered to host a birthday tea at the House of Lords for the 'guinea pigs' of the National Survey of Health and Development, 1946. It is being held in conjunction with three other events to launch the Medical Research Council's exhibition about the survey[6]