She was deputy chairman of the Banking Code Standards Board, and of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management.
[3] A long term campaigner for women's rights, she had a 20+ year career in the not for profit sector.
She is a former Chair of the Fawcett Society, a not-for-profit organisation campaigning for equality between women and men.
Since then, the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 has increased the commission's authority with regard to referendums.
[5] Watson was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to electoral democracy.