Oonagh McDonald

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Oonagh Anne McDonald OBE (born February 1938) was educated at East Barnet Grammar School and King's College London and worked as a teacher, lecturer, researcher and management consultant. She contested South Gloucestershire as the Labour Party candidate at both the February 1974 and October 1974 general elections. She was elected Member of Parliament for Thurrock in a 1976 by-election. At the 1987 general election, she lost Thurrock to the Conservative candidate Timothy Janman.

McDonald continued her career in finance, and has served as a member of the Financial Services Commission in Gibraltar. She is a senior consultant on international regulatory and public policy issues. She holds a Master's degree in Philosophy and a Ph.D in Philosophy, University of London, King's College. She was a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Bristol until she was elected to Parliament. She became private parliamentary secretary to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, the Rt Hon Joel Barnett (now Lord Barnett) in 1977. She was then Opposition Spokesman on Defence from 1981-1983, and then Opposition Spokesman on Treasury and Economic Affairs from 1983-1987.

She is currently a director of the British Portfolio Trust, Complaints Commissioner for the London Metal Exchange, ICE Futures and Virt-x and a member of IMF's Expert Roster. She was previously a director of the UK Financial Services Authority (formerly the Securities and Investments Board), a director of the General Insurance Standards Council, a director of Skandia Insurance Co Ltd, a director of the Financial Services Ombudsman Scheme, a director of the Investors Compensation Scheme and of Scottish Provident (until demutualised and sold to Abbey National in 2001), and a member of the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission. She has undertaken numerous consultancy projects on financial regulation and the development of private pensions for the Asian Development Bank, the IMF, USAID and the British Know-How Fund in Russia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Brunei and Moldova.

She was Gwilym Gibbon Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford and wrote The Future of Whitehall, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1992 and is also the author of Parliament at Work, Methuen, 1989 and The Future of Retail Banking in Europe: A View from the Top, with Professor Kevin Keasey, John Wiley & Sons, 2002, and numerous research papers for a variety of clients including Deloitte's and PricewaterhouseCoopers. She is currently a Visiting Fellow, International Institute of Banking & Financial Services, University of Leeds. She also edits the Journal of Financial Regulation & Compliance. In 1998, she was awarded the CBE for services to financial regulation and business.

Dr McDonald married Richard Whitehouse, but the marriage was subsequently dissolved.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Hugh Delargy		 Member of Parliament for Thurrock
1976–1987		 Succeeded by
Timothy Janman