Sue Slipman

Susan Slipman (born 3 August 1949) was President of the National Union of Students between 1977 and 1978. She later joined the National Union of Public Employees. Since then she has held a wide range of appointments and offices in the public sector and the field of training and education.

Biography The youngest of three sisters from a close and happy, though often poor, working-class Jewish family and a graduate in English Slipman went on to run the London TEC Council (the co-ordinating organisation for the Training and Enterprise Councils in London. From 1992 she was a member of the Working Group on Women's Issues to the Secretary of State for Employment. She has also written a number of books aimed at improving the situation of women, and single parents, in the workplace.

In 1994 Slipman received an honorary degree of Doctor of Arts from Oxford Brookes University. She was awarded an OBE in the 1994 New Year Honours.

In 1998, Slipman became Director of Environmental and Social Responsibility for the National Lottery operators, Camelot Group, where she stayed until 2003. She then moved to become Chairman of the UK's Financial Ombudsman Service. In 2005 she became a director of the Foundation Trust Network, working with foundation hospitals within the NHS.