Sugg grew up and went to school in Surrey attending
Epsom College. She graduated from
Newcastle University with a degree in Politics and Economics. Her mother, Deborah Sugg, worked for many years as parliamentary assistant to the prominent Conservative MP,
Kenneth Clarke. After working in Brussels as a press secretary for the Conservative MEPs, Sugg served as Head of Operations at
10 Downing Street under the premiership of
David Cameron. She led the preparation of key international meetings hosted by the UK such as the
G7 Summit in
Lough Erne in 2013 and the
NATO Summit 2014 in Wales. She was appointed a
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the
2015 Dissolution Honours. She was nominated for a
life peerage in the
2016 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours and was created
Baroness Sugg, of
Coldharbour in the
London Borough of Lambeth, on 30 August 2016. Sugg was a government whip as a
Baroness-in-Waiting from June to October 2017. She was then appointed
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Aviation at the
Department for Transport on 27 October 2017, replacing
Lord Callanan. From 23 April 2019 until the
February 2020 reshuffle she was
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development. She was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State and Minister for the Overseas Territories and Sustainable Development on 13 February 2020, and Special Envoy for Girls' Education on 5 March 2020. On the appointment of
David Cameron as
Foreign Secretary, she became a Special Adviser to him. ==Notes==