Sarah Jane Brown
British campaigner for global health and education
Sarah Jane Brown (née Macaulay; born 31 October 1963) is an English campaigner for global health and education, founder and president of the children's charity Theirworld, the executive chair of the Global Business Coalition for Education and the co-founder of A World at School.
She was a founding partner of Hobsbawm Macaulay Communications, a public relations company. She is married to Gordon Brown, who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1997 to 2007 and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010.
Early life and career
Sarah Jane Macaulay was born in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire on 31 October 1963. Her mother Pauline was a teacher and her father Iain worked for publisher Longman. Macaulay spent her infancy in Fife, before her family moved to Tanzania—where her mother was to operate a school—when she was two years old. When she was eight, her parents separated and later, each remarried. Her mother, stepfather, she, and her two younger brothers, Sean and Bruce, resettled in North London.
There, she was educated at Acland Burghley Secondary School and Camden School for Girls, and later took a psychology degree at the University of Bristol.
Upon leaving university, she worked at the brand consultancy Wolff Olins.
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