Baroness Julia Neugberger DBE
became a rabbi in 1977, and served the South London Liberal Synagogue for
twelve years, before going to the King’s Fund Institute as a Visiting Fellow.
She was at Harvard Medical School in 1991-1992, Chairman of
Camden & Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust from 1993 until 1997
and then Chief Executive of the King’s Fund, an independent health charity
until 2004. She has been a member of the Committee on Standards in Public
Life , the Medical Research Council and the General Medical Council, a Trustee
of the Runnymede Trust and the Imperial War Museum
(until 2006). She was also a Trustee of the
British Council and of Jewish Care and remains a Trustee
of the Booker Prize Foundation as well as a founding trustee of the Walter and
Liesel Schwab Charitable Trust, in memory of her parents. Until recently she
chaired the Commission on the Future of Volunteering, is President of Liberal
Judaism, and last year was appointed the Prime Minister’s Champion
for Volunteering.
She is the author of several books on Judaism, women, healthcare ethics and on
caring for dying people, and her book The Moral State We’re In, was published
in March 2005. Her latest book Not Dead Yet – a Manifesto for old age was
published by Harper Collins in May 2008.
She was created a Life Peer in June 2004 (Liberal Democrat) and was Bloomberg
Professor of Divinity at Harvard University
for the Spring Semester 2006.
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