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Kay CarberryCBE
Kay Carberry
Assistant General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress
In office 2003–2016
General Secretary	Brendan Barber Frances O'Grady
Preceded by	David Lea (1999)
Succeeded by	Office vacant
Personal details
Born	19 October 1950 (1950-10-19) (age 74)
Alma mater	University of Sussex
Profession	Trade unionist, teacher

Kay Carberry, CBE (born 19 October 1950) is the former Assistant General Secretary of the British Trades Union Congress (TUC).

Carberry studied at the Royal Naval School Tal-Handaq in Malta, then at the University of Sussex. She worked as a teacher for three years, and became active in the National Union of Teachers (NUT), where she took employment as a researcher. She began working for the TUC in 1978, and in 1988 was appointed as the first head of its Equal Rights Department. In 2003, she was appointed to the vacant post of Assistant General Secretary of the TUC.

Carberry has held a number of other posts. She was a commissioner on the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and the Equal Opportunities Commission. She is a commissioner of the Low Pay Commission, a board member of Transport for London, a trustee of the People's History Museum, a director of TU Fund Managers, an alternate member of The Takeover Panel and an honorary fellow of St Hugh’s College Oxford.

In 2007, Carberry was appointed a CBE. She retired from the TUC in 2016.

References

1. ^ "CARBERRY, Kay", Who's Who
2. "Biographical Details: Kay Carberry", Trades Union Congress
3. "Women complete top team at TUC", Trades Union Congress, 22 January 2003
4. "Kay Carberry CBE Archived 2012-06-10 at the Wayback Machine", Equality and Human Rights Commission
5. Trades Union Congress, "Paul Nowak appointed TUC Deputy General Secretary", 25 February 2016

• 1950 births
• Living people
• Alumni of the University of Sussex
• Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
• British trade union leaders
• British women trade unionists