Hogg, Sarah Elizabeth Mary (1946– )

English economist and journalist. She earned a reputation for top-ranking journalism with The Economist, Sunday Times, Independent, Telegraph, and Sunday Telegraph, and as a presenter on Channel 4 News. From 1990 she worked for John Major, the former Conservative Prime Minister, as head of the Downing Street policy unit until 1995, in which year she was appointed a life peer. She became the first woman to chair a FTSE 100 company when she took the helm at 3i, a venture capital investment firm, in 2002, and served as a governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation from 2000–04.

Hogg was educated at Oxford, and began her journalistic career at The Economist in 1967. She was governor of the Centre for Economic Policy Research 1985–92. As a member of Major's policy unit she received some blame for the failure of his 1993 ‘back to basics’ campaign, but was also praised for her wise advice.