Susan Mary Woodford-Hollick, Baroness Hollick, OBE (born 16 May 1945[1]) is a British businesswoman and consultant with a wide-ranging involvement in broadcasting and the arts.
A former investigative journalist, she worked for many years in television (as Sue Woodford), where her roles included producer/director of World in Action[2] for Granada TV and founding commissioning editor of Multicultural Programmes for Channel Four.
[12] On BBC Woman's Hour on 8 August 2012, in the feature "Family Secrets" for which she was interviewed by her daughter Abigail,[13] Woodford-Hollick spoke about growing up believing that she had been adopted by the white parents she knew as "Auntie May and Uncle Dick", only to discover in her twenties that her natural father was a Caribbean war hero and that her much older "sister" was in fact her mother, who had been forced to marry someone else: "Illegitimacy was not accepted in those days, and prejudice against black people was rife everywhere.
[15] She has been an adviser on Caribbean affairs to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO),[15] and in 1998 she served on the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain, an independent inquiry set up by the Runnymede Trust and chaired by Lord Parekh.
She is currently a trustee of the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF),[5] Africa's largest health NGO, based in Nairobi, Kenya.
[15] In April 2012, in Port of Spain, Trinidad, she announced the inauguration of the Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize, sponsored by the Hollick Family Charitable Trust and the Arvon Foundation, in association with the NGC Bocas Lit Fest, an award to allow a Caribbean writer living in the Anglophone region and writing in English, and who has not yet published a full-length book, to devote time to advancing a work in progress.