Ffion Hague
Ffion graduated from Jesus College, Oxford University with a BA in English Literature and the University of Wales with an MPhil in Welsh Literature. She then spent six years in the Civil Service, joining the Welsh office in 1991 as a fast stream civil servant and leaving in 1997 from the post of Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Wales. For two and a half years, she was a Director of Arts & Business, a national business charity. She spent two of those years as Director of Operations, and was latterly Director of Policy and Planning.
Since 2000, has been a headhunter at board level across all sectors, and was a director of Hanson Green, a top-level non-executive search company, between 2003 and 2008. She is also active as a mentor and board evaluator. Ffion has maintained her interest in literature and history and her first book was published in June 2008. The Pain and the Privilege is a biography of the women in Lloyd George’s life and was published by Harper Collins.
Ffion has been a Director of the British Council, The Voices Foundation, Action on Addiction and the Woburn Centre for Conservation and Education. She is currently a Trustee of The Outward Bound Trust and a member of the LSO Advisory Board, the WNO Development Circle and the Barclays Wealth Advisory Board.