Diana barran biography
Barran worked as an investment banker in London and Paris for Morgan Grenfell and Enskilda Asset Management and founded the hedge fund Barran and Partners in Barran left Beaumont Capital in shortly before its sale to Schroders....
Events and Ceremonies Team
Vice-Chancellor, it gives me great pleasure to introduce Baroness Barran of Bathwick in the City of Bath who is a mother, wife, charity founder, former hedge fund manager and Conservative Party life peer.
Born in London in 1959, Diana grew up in Kent before completing her education at King’s College Cambridge.
Diana Francesca Caroline Clare Barran, Baroness Barran, MBE is a British charity campaigner, former hedge fund manager and Conservative Party life peer.
After graduating with a degree in history, she worked as an investment banker in the City, before founding one of the first European hedge funds, Barran and Partners in 1993.
In 2001, Diana gave up a highly successful career to spend more time with her four children.
A year later however, Diana took her experience from the City to New Philanthropy Capital, where she worked advising donors and philanthropists on maximising the impact of their donations.
It was at New Philanthropy Capital that Diana helped advise the Guardian on their Christmas charity appeal which was focused on domestic abuse.
She was struck by the lack of choices available to