Elizabeth Llewellyn-Smith

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Elizabeth Marion Llewellyn-Smith CB (born 17 August 1934) is a British academic administrator, who was the principal of St Hilda's College, Oxford. [1]

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Early Life and Education

Llewellyn-Smith was born in Upshire, Essex in 1934 and educated at Christ's Hospital, Girton College, Cambridge and the Royal College of Defence Studies. [2]

Career

She was a senior civil servant, Deputy Director General of Fair Trading (1982-7), Deputy Secretary at the Department for Trade and Industry Companies Division (1987-90), Director of the European Investment Bank (1987-90) and then the eighth principal of St Hilda's College from 1990 to 2001, when she retired. [3] [4] During her time as Principal, her portrait was commissioned, painted in 1996 by Tom Phillips, which now hangs at the college. [5]

In 1995 she headed a working party of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales to investigate whether large audit clients were damaged by competitive pricing, concluding they were not. [6] She was also a lay board member of the Investigation and Discipline Board (IDB) of the Accountancy Foundation in 2002. [7]

In 1993, Llewellyn Smith wrote of her doubts that Oxford University would consider institutional change as a way of allowing women's colleges to continue to accept only women students. [8] In 1996, she authored a chapter as part of a collection of women writing about their journeys to leadership in higher education. [9]

Honours

She was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1985 Birthday Honours. [4]

As of 2011, she was Honorary Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Llewellyn-Smith, Elizabeth Marion". Who's Who (online ed.). doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u24735.
  2. ↑ Sleeman, Elizabeth (2001). The International Who's Who of Women 2002. London: Routledge. ISBN 1857431227.
  3. ↑ "Sudden exit for Oxford master" . 14 September 2001.
  4. 1 2 Sleeman, Elizabeth (2001). The International Who's Who of Women 2002. London: Routledge. ISBN   1857431227.
  5. ↑ "Elizabeth Llewellyn-Smith, Principal (1990–2001) | Art UK".
  6. ↑ Pong, C. and Turley, S. 1997. "Audit firms and the audit market" in Current Issues in Auditing: SAGE Publications, p. 97
  7. ↑ Accounting Reform and Investor Protection: Hearings before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs United States Senate One Hundred Seventh Congress Second Session Vol 1 on The legislative history of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Issues Raised by Enron and Other Public Companies, p. 178
  8. ↑ [Llewellyn Smith, E. 1993. 'Does Oxford want a Women's College?', Oxford Magazine, 97.)
  9. ↑ Llewellyn-Smith, E. 1996. "From Whitehall to Cherwell", in Walton, K., Ed. Against the Tide: Career Paths of Women Leaders in American and British Higher Education. Bloomington, IN: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation.
  10. ↑ 2011 Annual Review: The annual record of Girton College, p. 1

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