Dame Mary Marsh has been appointed a non-executive Director of HSBC Bank plc with effect from 1 January 2009.
Dame Mary is Director of the Clore Social Leadership Programme, a new initiative of the Clore Duffield Foundation. The programme's aim is to identify, develop and connect aspiring leaders in the wider third sector working for the benefit of individual people and progressive social change in communities across the UK.
Before joining the Clore Social Leadership Programme in October 2008, she was Chief Executive of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) for eight years. Before this, her career was in education. She was headteacher of two large comprehensive schools in the 1990s, the second being Holland Park School in inner London.
Dame Mary is also a member of the National Council of the Learning and Skills Council, a Trustee of Young Enterprise and a member of the State Honours Committee.
Dame Mary was born in Liverpool, England in 1946 and is a widow with four grown-up sons.
