Dr Ann Robinson

Career: fin journalist Beaverbrook Newspapers 1959-61; sometime lectr at Univs of: Durham, Bristol, Bath, Univ of Wales Coll of Cardiff (sr lectr in politics 1987-89); head of Policy Unit IOD 1989-95, DG Nat Assoc of Pension Funds 1995-2000; memb: Cncl RIIA 1991-97, MMC 1992-97; dir: WNO 1993-94, Great Western Holdings Ltd 1996-98, Almedia Capital 2000-09; European Parly candidate (Cons) SE Wales 1979; memb: Equal Opportunities Cmmn 1980-85, Economic and Social Ctee EC 1986-93 (chm Industry Section 1990-92), Welsh Arts Cncl 1991-93, HEFC for Wales 1993-97, Pensions Protection and Investments Accreditation Bd 2000-05, Bd Harwich Haven Authy 2000-06, London Pensions Fund Authy 2001-05; tstee Dixon's Retirement and Employee Security Scheme 2000-06; memb: Bd of Academic Govrs Richmond Coll London 1992-, Bd of Govrs Commonwealth Inst 1992-97, Cncl Clifton Coll 1998-2003 (dep chm)

Books and Publications: Parliament and Public Spending (1978), Tax Policy Making in the UK (with Prof C T Sandford, 1984), also author of numerous articles and chapters on public expenditure, House of Commons select ctees, taxation policy and EC matters; IOD publications: Business Leaders' Manifesto for the European Election (1989 and 1994), European Political Union (1990), A Currency for the Single Market (1990), Continuing Tax Reform (1990), Forward to Prosperity: A Business Leaders' Manifesto for the Next Government (1992), A Constitution for Europe? (with Paul Robinson, 2002)