Tuesday, December 13, 2022

The Baroness Couttie 1962-2022

 The Baroness Couttie, who died 12 December, 2022, aged 60, was a Conservative life peer in the House of Lords who, as Philippa Roe, served as Leader of Westminster City Council from 2012 to 2017. Before entering public life she was an investment banker with Citigroup.

Philippa Marion Roe (born 25 September 1962) was born in Hampstead and educated at the University of St Andrews, Roe was a director of Citigroup before entering politics in 2006. The daughter of James Roe and former Conservative MP Dame Marion Roe. In 1982, she became the first student in 572 years to be elected to the University of St Andrews Senate, the institution's governing body.

Philippa Roe married Stephen Couttie, a partner in the private equity firm Collabrium Capital, in September 2002. After fertility treatment in America, she gave birth to twins, Angus and Genevieve, in August 2005.  

Roe was nominated for a life peerage in David Cameron's Resignation Honours and was created Baroness Couttie, of Downe in the County of Kent, on 5 September 2016.

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