Jo Valentine

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Baroness Jo Valentine is the Chief Executive of London First.[1]

Valentine is the daughter of Michael Valentine, a former Warburg corporate financier. She was educated at St Paul’s girls’ school, and read maths and philosophy at St Hugh’s, Oxford.[2]

Prior to London First, Jo Valentine worked in corporate finance and planning at Barings and BOC Group. She established and ran ‘The Blackburn Partnership’ a public-private regeneration partnership in 1988 and the Central London Partnership (CLP) in 1995.[3]

Valentine joined London First in 1997 as Managing Director, becoming Chief Executive in 2003. She became a Crossbench Peer in October 2005.[4]

Notes

  1. Baroness Jo Valentine (pdf), London First, accessed 7 July 2010.
  2. Angela Jameson, At leisure: ‘You need both the practitioners and the politicians to work together’, The Times, 5 December 2009.
  3. Baroness Jo Valentine (pdf), London First, accessed 7 July 2010.
  4. Baroness Jo Valentine (pdf), London First, accessed 7 July 2010.