Dame Ann Gloag is a former nurse and co-founder of the international transport company Stagecoach and served as an executive director until May 2000. She founded Freedom From Fistula in 2008 and has expanded the charity to help more than 20,000 women and children across Africa.
How old is Ann Gloag?
Dame Ann Heron Gloag born on 10 December 1942, is 81 years old.
Gloag’s ex-husband, Robin, father of her late son, Jonathan, was killed in a car crash on 6 December 2007. Their 28-year-old son, Jonathan, hanged himself in Deuchny Wood in 1999.
In 1990, Gloag married David McCleary, a widower and a successful owner of multiple businesses, who was previously an organist and minister at the local Church of the Nazarene.
A member of the Church of the Nazarene, Gloag founded the Freedom From Fistula Foundation. After meeting Adam Friedman, she became the executive producer of Shout Gladi Gladi, a documentary film explaining the medical and social issues surrounding obstetric fistula in Africa.
She also supports international aid charities and has adopted a Kenyan boy, Peter, now aged 30, as well as a 6-year-old Kenyan grandson.