Genista McIntosh, Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall

Genista Mary "Jenny" McIntosh, Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall (born 23 September 1946), is a British arts consultant, theatre executive and Labour politician.

Born Genista Mary Tandy, she was the daughter of Geoffrey Tandy and his wife Maire née MacDermott, and was educated at the University of York.

McIntosh worked for the Royal Shakespeare Company as casting director between 1972 and 1977, as planning controller between 1977 and 1984, as senior administrator between 1986 and as associate producer in 1990.

[1] In 1997 she was appointed chief executive of the Royal Opera House, but resigned after only five months due to ill health.

[2] She was made a life peer as Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall, of Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden on 3 August 1999[3] and made her maiden speech in the House of Lords in November of that year.