Baroness Deech

Ruth Deech

Ruth Deech

Party

Crossbench

Address as

Baroness Deech

Contact details

Westminster

House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 3000
deechr@parliament.uk

Biography

Councils, public bodies

Chair, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority 1994-2002; BBC Governor 2002-06; Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education 2004-08; Gresham Professor of Law 2008-12; Chair, Bar Standards Board 2009-

Political interests

Higher education, family law, broadcasting, reproductive technology

Countries of interest

Israel, Poland, USA

Name, style and title

Raised to the peerage as Baroness Deech, of Cumnor in the County of Oxfordshire 2005

Register of Interests

2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.

Chairman, Bar Standards Board

Gresham Professor of Law, Gresham College, Holborn (2008-12)

7: Overseas visits

Visit to Malta, 14-16 July 2011, to attend Family Law conference; cost of fare and accommodation met by Brigham Young University Law School

Visit to Jerusalem, 8-11 September 2011, to take the Chair at a Genetics Colloquium; cost of visit funded by Anglo-Israel Association

Visit to Israel, 13-16 May 2012, on occasion of receiving honorary degree from Ben Gurion University; cost of air fares and four nights' hotel accommodation met by Ben Gurion University

8: Gifts, benefits and hospitality

One night's hotel accommodation in London provided by Israel Embassy, London, in connection with a conference, 17 June 2012

10: Non-financial interests (b)

Board Member, Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism, Tel Aviv University

Chair, Academic Panel, Stuart Young Foundation

10: Non-financial interests (e)

Trustee, Jewish National Fund

Trustee, Community Security Trust

Executive Council Member, International Society of Family Law