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Baroness Blackstone will succeed Sir Andrew Burns as Chair of the Bar Standards Board in January. The Labour peer and university administrator has been a lecturer at the London School of Economics, headed Birkbeck College and was Vice Chancellor of the University of Greenwich. She was Minister of State for Education and Employment from 1997 until 2001 and Minister for the Arts from 2001 until 2003.
Baroness Blackstone will succeed Sir Andrew Burns as Chair of the Bar Standards Board in January. The Labour peer and university administrator has been a lecturer at the London School of Economics, headed Birkbeck College and was Vice Chancellor of the University of Greenwich. She was Minister of State for Education and Employment from 1997 until 2001 and Minister for the Arts from 2001 until 2003.
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