President

Baroness Sally Greengross OBE has been a crossbench (independent) member of the House of Lords since 2000 and Chairs three All-Party Parliamentary Groups: Corporate Social Responsibility, Intergenerational Futures: Old & Young Together, and Continence Care.  She is the Vice Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia, Ageing and Older People and Major Infrastructure Projects, and is Treasurer of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Equalities.

Sally has been the PPI's President since 2004 and in December 2006 was announced as a Commissioner for the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

Sally is Chief Executive of the International Longevity Centre UK.  She is Chair of the Advisory Groups for the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing (ELSA) and the New Dynamics of Ageing (NDA).  Sally is also Patron of Beginnings, an initiative to encourage the employment of people with disabilities, among many other charity interests.  She is a trustee of the Resolution Foundation, President of the College of Occupational Therapists, and Honorary Vice President of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health. Sally is co-Chair of STEP, a foundation working with disadvantaged young people, post Tsunami in Sri Lanka.

Sally was Director General of Age Concern England from 1987 until 2000, and is now their Vice President. Until 2000, she was joint Chair of the Age Concern Institute of Gerontology at Kings College London, and Secretary General of Eurolink Age. At Age Concern, she established many innovative programmes, including the Employment Forum on Age, and was also responsible for building Age Concern Enterprises into a multi-million-pound business.

Sally holds honorary doctorates from seven UK universities.