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Margaret Casely-Hayford is a British lawyer, businesswoman and public figure who has an estimated net worth of $1 million. She was born in 1954 in London, United Kingdom. She is the daughter of the late Ghanaian lawyer and politician Joe Appiah and the British-born writer and broadcaster Margaret C. Hayford. Casely-Hayford was educated at the University of London, where she obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree. She then went on to pursue a Master of Laws degree at the University of Cambridge. She was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1981. Casely-Hayford has held a number of prominent positions in the legal and business world. She was a partner at the law firm Slaughter and May, and was the first black woman to be appointed to the firm's partnership. She has also served as a non-executive director of the Bank of England, and was the first black woman to be appointed to the board. Casely-Hayford is also a prominent public figure. She was appointed as the Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission in 2018, and is a member of the House of Lords. She is also a patron of the charity Women in Law UK.

Popular As Margaret Henrietta Augusta Casely-Hayford
Occupation Lawyer, businesswoman and public figure
Age 69 years old
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2019

In October 2019, she was featured on the "Powerlist 2020", a list of the most influential black people in the United Kingdom.

2018

In February 2018, she was announced as the new chair of the board of Shakespeare's Globe, taking over the appointment from Michael Bichard.

She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2018 Birthday Honours.

2017

She was chosen to chair of the diversity review conducted by CILIP in 2017 into the awarding of the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals. Committed to encouraging all business leaders to promote diversity on boards, she has said: "That is the future. There is a whole slew of people who still feel that they aren't part of the game. We are a mixed society – that's what Britain has been for so long. We just need to be more positive rather than negative, and showcase it. We are now at a crossroads."

In July 2017 Casely-Hayford was named the new Chancellor of Coventry University, the first woman to hold the position.

2016

In 2016 Casely-Hayford was awarded an honorary doctorate by Middlesex University.

2014

For nine years, until 2014, she was Director of Legal Services and Company Secretary for the John Lewis Partnership. She was also on the Board of the British Retail Consortium for four years to 2014.

She became Chair of the charity ActionAid UK in 2014, and in 2016 she became a member-nominated Director of The Co-op. She is an ambassador of Board Apprentice and Chairs the advisory board of Ultra Education, working to develop young entrepreneurs, and a non-executive director of WetZebra Media. She is also a trustee of The Radcliffe Trust, one of Britain's oldest charities supporting classical music performance and training,

In 2014 she was voted Black British Business Person of the Year at the Black British Business Awards (BBBA) founded by Melanie Eusebe.

2008

Margaret Casely-Hayford was born in London, England, into a prominent Ghanaian family: the daughter of Victor Casely-Hayford, an accountant who had trained as a barrister, her grandfather was the Gold Coast lawyer, writer and politician J. E. Casely Hayford, and her brothers are historian Gus Casely-Hayford, designer Joe Casely-Hayford and Peter Casely-Hayford, formerly managing director of TV production company Twenty Twenty. In 2008 the Casely-Hayfords were named on "The Black Powerlist" as the most influential black family in the UK.

1982

She studied law at Somerville College, Oxford, graduating in 1982, and did her Bar finals at the Inns of Court School of Law, being called to the Bar in 1983 (Gray's Inn). She worked for 20 years with the law firm Dentons, where she was made a Partner, becoming the first black woman to hold such a position in a City firm. She specialised in planning matters, and in 1995 wrote a book, Practical Planning: Permission and the Application . From 2000 to 2008 she was a government-appointed trustee of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital Charity and of the Geffrye Museum and was on the development board of the Young Vic theatre. During 2012–16 she was a non-executive director of NHS England, and on the Board of the British Retail Consortium. She also serves on the Metropolitan Police panel overseeing the investigation into police corruption. She is in the forefront of working to create diversity on boards.

1959

Margaret Henrietta Augusta Casely-Hayford CBE (born 1959) is a British lawyer, businesswoman and public figure who is active in the voluntary sector. She is Chancellor of Coventry University, chairs the board of trustees of Shakespeare's Globe, and was formerly chair of ActionAid UK and company secretary and head of legal services for leading retailers the John Lewis Partnership. She is in the forefront of working to create diversity on boards.