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Margaret Mountford
Margaret Rose Mountford (née Swale, born 24 November 1951) is a British lawyer, businesswoman, academic and television personality from Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland, best known for her role in the BBC reality TV series The Apprentice.
Mountford is originally from Holywood, County Down. She was educated at the voluntary grammar school, Strathearn School, in Belfast, then at Girton College, Cambridge.
Mountford spent a number of years as a lawyer with Herbert Smith, before taking on roles as non-executive director at Amstrad and Georgica. She chairs the board of governors of St Marylebone, an inner-London Church of England Comprehensive School.
After Mountford retired in 1999 she completed a degree in Ancient World Studies at University College London and then an MA degree in Classics. In April 2012, Mountford completed her PhD degree in Papyrology at University College, London, with her thesis entitled Documentary papyri from Roman And Byzantine Oxyrhynchus.
Mountford also chairs the Bright Ideas Trust which was set up by the first Apprentice winner Tim Campbell, and helps young people start their own businesses.
From 2005 to 2009, Mountford was one of Alan Sugar's advisers, alongside Nick Hewer, in the UK version of The Apprentice television show, a role with which she achieved increasing public popularity. Mountford also took part on the panel in The Apprentice - You're Fired on 27 May 2009 for the first time, during which she hinted that Lorraine would not make the final.
In June 2009, Mountford announced she was leaving the show at the end of Series 5 in order to concentrate on her PhD and was replaced for Series 6 by businesswoman Karren Brady.
She returned in the 2010 series, for the interview stage, helping Alan Sugar narrow down the candidates to the final two. Mountford returned for the Apprentice Finals in 2011, 2012 and 2013, again as an interviewer.
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Margaret Mountford
Margaret Rose Mountford (née Swale, born 24 November 1951) is a British lawyer, businesswoman, academic and television personality from Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland, best known for her role in the BBC reality TV series The Apprentice.
Mountford is originally from Holywood, County Down. She was educated at the voluntary grammar school, Strathearn School, in Belfast, then at Girton College, Cambridge.
Mountford spent a number of years as a lawyer with Herbert Smith, before taking on roles as non-executive director at Amstrad and Georgica. She chairs the board of governors of St Marylebone, an inner-London Church of England Comprehensive School.
After Mountford retired in 1999 she completed a degree in Ancient World Studies at University College London and then an MA degree in Classics. In April 2012, Mountford completed her PhD degree in Papyrology at University College, London, with her thesis entitled Documentary papyri from Roman And Byzantine Oxyrhynchus.
Mountford also chairs the Bright Ideas Trust which was set up by the first Apprentice winner Tim Campbell, and helps young people start their own businesses.
From 2005 to 2009, Mountford was one of Alan Sugar's advisers, alongside Nick Hewer, in the UK version of The Apprentice television show, a role with which she achieved increasing public popularity. Mountford also took part on the panel in The Apprentice - You're Fired on 27 May 2009 for the first time, during which she hinted that Lorraine would not make the final.
In June 2009, Mountford announced she was leaving the show at the end of Series 5 in order to concentrate on her PhD and was replaced for Series 6 by businesswoman Karren Brady.
She returned in the 2010 series, for the interview stage, helping Alan Sugar narrow down the candidates to the final two. Mountford returned for the Apprentice Finals in 2011, 2012 and 2013, again as an interviewer.