Margaret Ford, Baroness Ford
Margaret Anne Ford, Baroness Ford (born 16 December 1957) is a British peer and Chair of the London 2012 Olympic Park Legacy Company. She is a former Chief Executive of Good Practice Limited, Senior Non-Executive Director of Serco, Managing Director (Social Infrastructure and Development) of Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets She is currently Chairman of Irvine Bay Urban Regeneration Company.[1] and president of the UK charity Epilepsy Action.
On 7 April 2009 Communities Secretary Hazel Blears, Mayor of London Boris Johnson, and Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell announced her appointment as Chair of the newly created London 2012 Legacy Delivery Company, known officially as the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC).[2] In 2011, she was included in the Times newspaper Sport Power 100, entering at number 26.[3]
Ford was awarded a life peerage as Baroness Ford, of Cunninghame in North Ayrshire in May 2006.[4]
