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 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]