Sharon White | Speakers for Schools

Sharon White

Chairman, John Lewis Partnership & Former Chief Executive, Ofcom

Sharon became the Partnership’s sixth Chairman in February 2020. Sharon moved from Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator, where she served as Chief Executive. Before joining Ofcom, Sharon was Second Permanent Secretary at the Treasury, responsible for overseeing the public finances. She also held Board level positions at the Ministry of Justice and the Department for International Development: worked as an adviser at the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit and in Washington DC as a senior economist at the World Bank.
Sharon is also a trained economist and studied at Cambridge University and University College London.