Baroness Ruth Deech

Ruth Deech was the principal at St Anne’s College, Oxford University, from 1991 to 2004. She was also the chair of UK Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (1994–2001), governor of the BBC (2002–2006), and a Rhodes Scholarships Trustee (1996–2006). She was appointed a life peer in 2005 and sits in the House of Lords as a crossbench legislator. In 2013 she was an honorary member of the Queen’s Counsel. Ruth received her MA from Brandeis in Jewish studies, an honorary degree from Ben Gurion University, and a Churchill Award from Technion. Her father, Josef Fraenkel, was a founding member of the World Jewish Congress.