Dido Harding
The Baroness Harding of Winscombe | |
|---|---|
 Harding in 2023 | |
| Chief Executive of the UK Health Security Agency | |
| Interim 18 August 2020 – 7 May 2021 | |
| Prime Minister | Boris Johnson |
| Preceded by | Duncan Selbie (CEO of Public Health England) |
| Succeeded by | Jenny Harries |
| Head of NHS Test and Trace | |
| In office 7 May 2020 – 7 May 2021 | |
| Prime Minister | Boris Johnson |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Jenny Harries |
| Chair of NHS Improvement | |
| In office 9 October 2017 – October 2021 | |
| Prime Minister | Theresa May Boris Johnson |
| Deputy | Richard Douglas Andrew Valentine Morris |
| Preceded by | Ed Smith |
| Succeeded by | Andrew Valentine Morris |
| Member of the House of Lords | |
| Life peerage 15 September 2014 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Diana Mary Harding November 1967 (age 58) |
| Party | Conservative |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent | |
| Relatives | John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton (grandfather) |
| Education | Magdalen College, Oxford Harvard Business School (MBA) |
Diana Mary "Dido" Harding, Baroness Harding of Winscombe is a Member of the House of Lords and a British businesswoman, formally the Chief Executive of the TalkTalk Group from 2010 to 2017. She has held a number of senior positions at other British businesses. She is Chair of The Jockey Club, which is responsible for several major horse racing events including the Cheltenham Festival.
Baroness Harding has also held a successful career in the public sector, appointed as Executive Chair of NHS Test and Trace in May 2020, which was established to track and help prevent the spread of COVID-19 in England. Harding was also appointed interim chief executive of the then National Institute for Health Protection, later renamed the UK Health Security Agency. She left that role soon after the new agency was established in April 2021.