Dame Barbara Mary Frost, DBE (born 1952) is a British retired charity executive. From 2005 to 2017, she was the chief executive officer (CEO) of WaterAid. She had previously been CEO of Action on Disability and Development, and had worked for ActionAid, Save the Children and Oxfam. [1] [2] [3]
In the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours, Frost was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) "for services to the provision of safe water, sanitation and hygiene in developing countries", and thereby granted the title dame . [4] [5]
Julia Elizabeth King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge is a British engineer and crossbench member of the House of Lords, present Chair of the Carbon Trust and the Henry Royce Institute, and was the Vice-Chancellor of Aston University from 2006 to 2016.
Dame Marjorie Morris Scardino,, FRSA is an American-born British business executive. She is the former CEO of Pearson PLC. Scardino became a trustee of Oxfam during her tenure at Pearson. She has been criticized by Private Eye magazine because, while Oxfam campaigns against corporate tax avoidance as part of the IF Coalition, Pearson was "a prolific tax haven user...routing hundreds of millions of pounds through an elaborate series of Luxembourg companies to avoid tax". She became the first female Chief Executive of a FTSE 100 company when she was appointed CEO of Pearson in 1997. She is also a non-executive director of Nokia and former CEO of the Economist Group. During her time at Pearson, Pearson's profits tripled, to a record £942m. In December 2013, she joined the board of Twitter as its first female director, after a controversy involving a lack of diversity on the Twitter board.
Dame Fiona Claire Reynolds is a British former civil servant and chair of the National Audit Office. She was previously Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and Director-General of the National Trust.
Dame Carolyn Julia McCall, is a Scottish-Irish businesswoman and the chief executive of ITV since 2018. She previously served as the chief executive of easyJet from 2010 to 2017.
Dame Barbara Mary Stocking, is a British public servant, former chief executive of Oxfam GB, and former president of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge.
Dame Sally Claire Davies is a British physician and academic administrator who served as the Chief Medical Officer for England from 2010 to 2019 and as the Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department of Health from 2004 to 2016 and worked as a clinician specialising in the treatment of diseases of the blood and bone marrow. She was appointed Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, on 8 February 2019, effective from 8 October 2019. She is one of the founders of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).
Dame Julia Unwin was chief executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) and the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust(JRHT). The Guardian in 2007 described her as a "major player in the voluntary sector." In 2012 she was appointed by the Scottish Government as a member of the Expert Working Group on Welfare and Constitutional Reform.
Dame Mary Colette Bowe is an English entrepreneur and former civil servant.
Dame Elizabeth Pauline Lucy Corley is Chair of the Impact Investing Institute. She was CEO of Allianz Global Investors, initially for Europe and then globally, from 2005 to 2016. She continued to act as an advisor to the company in various capacities until the end of 2019. She is also a Non-Executive Director at BAE Systems plc, Morgan Stanley Inc. and Schroders plc.
Dame Ila Dianne Thompson, DBE is a British businesswoman. She was Chief Executive Officer of Camelot Group from 2000 to 2014.
The Honours Committee is a committee within the Cabinet Office of the Government of the United Kingdom formed to review nominations for national honours for merit, exceptional achievement or service. Twice yearly the Honours Committee submits formal recommendations for the British monarch's New Years and Birthday Honours. Members of the Honours Committee—which comprises a main committee and nine subcommittees in speciality areas—research and vet nominations for national awards, including knighthoods and the Order of the British Empire.
Dame Donna Langley-Shamshiri is a British film executive who is Chairwoman of Universal Pictures. She was profiled in Variety's "Power of Women" issue in 2014.
Dame Inga Kristine Beale, DBE is a British businesswoman and the former CEO of Lloyd's of London. In June 2018, it was announced that she would be stepping down as CEO of Lloyd's after leading the global insurance and reinsurance market for five years, embedding modernisation and cultural change during her tenure.
Dame Anne Helen Richards is the chief executive officer of Fidelity International.
Air Commodore Dame Felicity Barbara Hill, was a British Royal Air Force officer. From 1966 to 1969, she served as Director of the Women's Royal Air Force. She died in January 2019 at the age of 103.
Dame Victoria Mary Taylor Heywood, is the chairman of Mountview Drama Academy and Festival UK 2022 and a member of the Board of the National Theatre. She is a former Chairman of the RSA, Royal Society of Arts. She is the former Chairman of 14-18 Now the UK's five year commemoration of the First World War. She is the former executive director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Court Theatre, London, and ran the London International Festival of Theatre. She was chief executive of the Contact Theatre, Manchester.
Dame Katherine Christie Watt, was a British military nurse, nursing administrator and civil servant.
Dame Helen Jean Sutherland Fraser, is a British executive and publisher. From 2010 to 2016, she was the chief executive officer of the Girls' Day School Trust. She previously worked in publishing, and was an editor then managing director at a number of publishers including Heinemann and Penguin UK.
In the UK, CEOs of charities are compensated for their time, and the data of which is available in the public domain. In comparison to the private sector, the compensation of charity CEOs is generally substantially lower. For example Steve Robertson of the privatised Thames Water, which serves water to 10,000,000 people, received a fixed salary of £745,000 in 2018, with potential bonus of £3,750,000 in 2020. For a public-sector comparison, UK prime minister David Cameron received a salary of £142,500 in 2015.
Dame Caroline Louise Mason has been the Chief Executive Officer of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation since 2013, a UK charity that supports improvement of life through strategic grants and investment.