Dido Harding

Diana Mary "Dido" Harding, Baroness Harding of Winscombe is a Member of the House of Lords and a British businesswoman, formally the Chief Executive of the TalkTalk Group from 2010 to 2017. She has held a number of senior positions at other British businesses. She is Chair of The Jockey Club, which is responsible for several major horse racing events including the Cheltenham Festival.

Baroness Harding has also held a successful career in the public sector, appointed as Executive Chair of NHS Test and Trace in May 2020, which was established to track and help prevent the spread of COVID-19 in England. Harding was also appointed interim chief executive of the then National Institute for Health Protection, later renamed the UK Health Security Agency. She left that role soon after the new agency was established in April 2021.