Autor/-in: Joan Cockin

Joan Cockin (in reality Edith Joan Burbidge Macintosh, PhD, CBE) was one of the very first women to be a British diplomat. Brought up in America, educated at Oxford, and married in India - her career cut short, as was then the rule for women, by marriage there to a Scottish banker. She was part of the UK delegation at the founding of both NATO and the Council of Europe. Joan went on to have a second career as a trail-blazing consumer champion, co-founding the National Consumer Council and the Scottish Consumer Council, acting as Legal Ombudsman for Scotland, founding and chairing the Insurance