Baroness Denise Kingsmill spent twenty years in law before she became deputy chairman of the Competition Commission where she conducted 22 enquiries into industries as diverse as cruise ships, cars and cable companies.
She is a senior advisor to a number of international companies and a non-executive director of British Airways. In 2000, Denise was awarded a CBE for services to Employment Law and Competition, and in June 2006, was appointed to the House of Lords as a Labour peer.