Diana Barran, Baroness Barran


Diana Francesca Caroline Clare Barran, Baroness Barran, MBE is a British charity campaigner, former hedge fund manager and Conservative Party life peer. She is the founder of the domestic abuse awareness charity SafeLives and served as its chief executive from 2004 to 2017.

Career

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 1993. Barren left Beaumont Capital in 2001 shortly before its sale to Schroders. Barran owned 10% of Beaumont Capital at the time of her departure.
Barran is a trustee of Comic Relief and chair of the Henry Smith Society. Barran has worked as the head of grant development for New Philanthropy Capital and as the firms donor adviser.
She was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for DCMS by Boris Johnson in the Johnson ministry. She is responsible for the department's business in the Lords and First World War commemorations.

Personal life

Barran is married with four children. She was educated at Benenden School and King's College, Cambridge.

Honours and awards

In the 2011 Birthday Honours, Barran was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire.
In May 2018, it was announced that she will be conferred a life peerage. On 21 June, she was created Baroness Barran, of Bathwick in the City of Bath.