Kay Carberry, Baroness Carberry of Muswell Hill
The Baroness Carberry of Muswell Hill | |
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Official portrait, 2025 | |
| Assistant General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress | |
| In office 2003–2016 | |
| General Secretary | |
| Preceded by | David Lea (1999) |
| Succeeded by | Kate Bell (2022) |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 30 January 2025 Life peerage | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 October 1950 |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | University of Sussex |
| Profession | Trade unionist, teacher |
Catherine Rose Carberry, Baroness Carberry of Muswell Hill, CBE (born 19 October 1950), is a British trade unionist and life peer. She was Assistant General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) from 2003 to 2016.
Carberry was privately educated at the Royal Naval School Tal-Handaq in Malta, then at the University of Sussex. She worked as a teacher for three years, and became active in the National Union of Teachers (NUT), where she took employment as a researcher. She began working for the TUC in 1978,[1] and in 1988 was appointed as the first head of its Equal Rights Department.[2] In 2003, she was appointed to the vacant post of Assistant General Secretary of the TUC.[3]
Carberry has held a number of other posts. She was a commissioner on the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and the Equal Opportunities Commission. She also served as commissioner of the Low Pay Commission and as a board member of Transport for London. She is a trustee of the People's History Museum, a director of TU Fund Managers, an alternate member of The Takeover Panel and an honorary fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford.[4]
Carberry was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2007 Birthday Honours, for services to Employment Relations.[1][5] She retired from the TUC in 2016.[6] She was created Baroness Carberry of Muswell Hill, of Muswell Hill in the London Borough of Haringey on 30 January 2025 as part of the 2024 Political Peerages.[7]
References
- ^ a b "CARBERRY, Kay", Who's Who
- ^ "Biographical Details: Kay Carberry Archived 2013-09-21 at the Wayback Machine", Trades Union Congress
- ^ "Women complete top team at TUC Archived 2016-03-10 at the Wayback Machine", Trades Union Congress, 22 January 2003
- ^ "Kay Carberry CBE Archived 2012-06-10 at the Wayback Machine", Equality and Human Rights Commission
- ^ United Kingdom list: "No. 58358". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 15 June 2007. p. 7.
- ^ Trades Union Congress, "Paul Nowak appointed TUC Deputy General Secretary", 25 February 2016
- ^ "No. 64649". The London Gazette. 5 February 2025. p. 2014.