Baroness Sally Morgan became Fitzwilliam College’s ninth Master on 1 October 2019. 

Sally was born and went to school in Liverpool. She was Political Director and then Director of Government Relations in 10 Downing Street from 1997-2005.   

She became a peer in 2001 and served as Minister for Women and Equalities in the Cabinet Office. 

Sally was a member of the Olympic Delivery Authority board for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and is a former Chair of Ofsted and vice-chair at King's College London. 

After her first degree in Geography at Durham University, she went to King's College London to study for a Postgraduate Certificate in Education and worked as a secondary school teacher from 1981-1985. She later received an MA in Education from the Institute of Education. 

She has always been very involved in education, and since 2005 has been Chair or advisor to a range of charities serving disadvantaged young people.  She is currently a trustee of the Education Policy Institute and a Visiting Professor at KCL.   

After 7 years as Chair of the Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals, laterally as part of Guys and St Thomas’s Trust, she was appointed in January 2025 Chair of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 

Sally is a member of the Cambridge University Council. She also sits on the advisory board of the Centre for Science and Policy and the  board of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy  

January 2025