Dame Ann Heron Gloag DBE is a Scottish businesswoman, activist, and charity campaigner. She is a co-founder of the international transport company Stagecoach Group.
How did Ann Gloag make her money?
Dame Ann retired from Stagecoach in 2019, almost 40 years after she founded the firm with her brother. At the time she was Scotland’s richest woman. The Perth-based firm grew out of Margaret Thatcher’s deregulation of the bus industry in the 1980s.
It became one of the UK’s biggest bus and coach operators, employing more than 24,000 people. Dame Ann is now a philanthropist with charity interests around the world.
She set up the Gloag Foundation to support projects that “prevent or relieve poverty and encourage the advancement of education, health and religion in the UK and overseas”.
The foundation supports charities including Freedom from Fistula, a charity founded by Dame Ann, which supports women and children in Sierra Leone, Malawi, and Madagascar.