Cheltenham Festival 202412 – 15 March 2024

Dido Harding

The Right Honourable
 
The Baroness Harding of Winscombe
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Harding at Policy Exchange in 2013
Chief Executive of the UK Health Security Agency
Acting 18 August 2020 – 1 April 2021
Prime Minister Boris Johnson
Preceded by Duncan Selbie (CEO of Public Health England)
Succeeded by Jenny Harries
Head of NHS Test and Trace
In office 7 May 2020 – 1 April 2021
Prime Minister Boris Johnson
Preceded by Office established
Succeeded by Jenny Harries
Chair of NHS Improvement
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 October 2017
Prime Minister Theresa May Boris Johnson
Deputy Richard Douglas
Preceded by Ed Smith
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 September 2014 Life peerage
Personal details
Born
Diana Mary Harding
(1967-11-09) 9 November 1967 (age 53)
Nationality British
Political party Conservative
Spouse(s)
John Penrose
(m. 1995)
Children 2
Father John Charles Harding, 2nd Baron Harding of Petherton
Relatives John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton (grandfather)
Alma mater Magdalen College, Oxford Harvard Business School (MBA)
Coat of arms of Dido Harding
Coronet of a British Baron.svg
Harding of Winscombe Lozenge.png
Notes
Baroness Harding of Winscombe’s arms are those of her father, John Charles Harding, 2nd Baron Harding of Petherton, but on a lozenge shaped shield.
Coronet
Coronet of a Baron
Escutcheon
Argent, on a Bend Azure, between two Lions passant guardant Gules, two Kukris in saltire between two Martlets Or.