Martha Lane Fox

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Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho, CBE, is a British businesswoman, philanthropist, and public servant who was born on February 10, 1973.

She co-founded Last Minute during the dotcom bust in the early 2000s and has since worked on public service digital projects.

She serves on the boards of Twitter, Donmar Warehouse, and Chanel, as well as being a trustee of The Queens Commonwealth Trust.

She began serving on the board of Channel 4, becoming the country's youngest female member, when she was elected Chancellor of the Open University on March 26, 2013.

Lane Fox was named as the most influential woman in Britain's digital industry in November 2019 by a magazine dating back to the first quarter of a century.

Early life

Lane Fox, a London based academic and garden writer, is the niece of an English landed gentry family seated at Bramham Park. She was educated at Oxford High School, an all-girls independent school in Oxford, and Westminster School, a public school in London, in a mixed-sex sixth form. At Magdalen College, Oxford, she studied Ancient and Modern History, earning a 2:1 BA degree and moving MA.

Personal life

Lady Lane-Fox and her partner Chris Gorell Barnes live in Marylebone, London. Milo and Felix, their identical twin sons, were born in 2016. She was critically wounded in a car crash in Essaouira, Morocco, in May 2004, and then flown to England for medical attention at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, Oxford, and later Wellington Hospital in London. In December 2005, she was released from the hospital.

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Career

Lane Fox showed interest in acting and prison governorship but instead joined information technology and media consulting firm Spectrum, where she met Brent Hoberman. In 1998, Lane Fox and Hoberman founded Last Minute, an online travel and gift business. She stepped down as managing director in 2003. Meanwhile, the company survived the dot-com crash to be bought out by Sabre Holdings in 2005 for £577m.

Following her departure from Last Minute, Lane Fox was tipped to take over day-to-day operations at Selfridges but was involved in an auto accident before she could assume that role. At the suggestion of advertising executive Julian Douglas, Fox teamed up with Nick Thistleton to launch karaoke company Lucky Voice. In 2007, Lane Fox joined the board of Marks & Spencer.

From 2009 to 2013 she was the Digital Champion for the UK and helped to create the Government Digital Service – this team launched gov.uk, and was given the task of spearheading a two-year campaign to improve computer literacy. The following year she was assigned to establish the Digital Public Services Unit within the Cabinet Office. and invited to sit on the Cabinet Office Efficiency and Reform Board. The following month Lane Fox was honoured by David Cameron for her "Manifesto for a Networked Nation", a challenge to increase British internet engagement. She resigned from her position as Digital Champion in late 2013.

She entered the House of Lords as a crossbencher on 26 March 2013, becoming its youngest female member. In her maiden speech, she addressed the need for digital literacy in all sectors of the economy. That same year the Open University appointed her Chancellor. In the run-up to the Scottish independence referendum of 2014, Lane Fox signed an open letter opposing Scottish independence.

In 2017, Lady Lane-Fox was appointed a member of the Joint Committee on National Security Strategy. In 2018 she was appointed Non-Executive Director of Chanel as well as Donmar Warehouse and a Trustee of the Queen's Commonwealth Trust. Lane Fox continues to be a Patron of AbilityNet, Reprieve, Camfed and Just for Kids Law. She joined the board of social network Twitter in June 2016.In 2020, Lane Fox was appointed to the board of directors for the company WeTransfer.

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