Dame Joan Christine McVittie, DBE (born 1952) is a British head teacher. She graduated from Birmingham University with a BSc in Biological Sciences in 1974. [1] [2] [3]
She was Headteacher of Woodside High School [4] in Haringey, North London. She is a past president of the Association of School and College Leaders. [1] [2] [3] McVittie was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to education. [1] [2] [3]
Dame Margaret Olivia Hillier, known as Meg Hillier, is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney South and Shoreditch at the 2005 general election, was a junior government minister (2007–10) and was succeeded by Caroline Flint as Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change in the Labour Party October 2011 reshuffle. She has chaired the Public Accounts Committee since 2015.
Joyce Anne Anelay, Baroness Anelay of St Johns,, is a British Conservative Party politician, previously serving as Minister of State of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from August 2014 to June 2017. Anelay was appointed as Minister of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union in the Second May ministry, after the 2017 reshuffle.
Carys Davina Grey-Thompson, Baroness Grey-Thompson,, known as Tanni Grey-Thompson, is a Welsh politician, television presenter and former wheelchair racer.
Sheila Valerie Noakes, Baroness Noakes, is a British Conservative politician and former corporate executive.
Dame Christine Joan Beasley, is a British nurse and NHS healthcare administrator.
Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas, is a New Zealand-born British solicitor, local government politician and academic. She is currently the Chancellor of Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, England, and has been the first woman to hold a number of public roles in the United Kingdom such as a two-year term as Provost of King's College, Cambridge and chair of the Royal Opera House.
Dame Caroline Jane Swift, Lady Openshaw, formerly styled The Hon. Mrs Justice Swift, is a British barrister and former High Court judge. She was leading counsel to the Inquiry in the Shipman Inquiry, which began in 2001.
Dame Priscilla Deborah Snowball, DBE, generally known as Cilla Snowball, is Group Chairman and Group Chief Executive of AMV BBDO, an advertising and communications group in the UK. She has worked for Abbott Mead Vickers for 20 years; in senior management positions since 2005, rising to agency head and now country head.
Dame Victoria Madeleine Sharp,, PC is the President of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice in England and Wales.
Dame Sally Claire Davies is a British physician and academic administrator who was the Chief Medical Officer from 2010 to 2019 and Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department of Health from 2004 to 2016. She 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 Wendy Macur, DBE, known as The Rt Hon Lady Justice Macur, is a British judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. Between April 2017 and December 2019, she was the Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales.
Vivien Judith Rose, Lady Rose of Colmworth, is a senior British judge, currently sitting as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
Dame Christine Braddock, DBE, DL is a British further education administrator, academic and was High Sheriff of the West Midlands for the year 2013-2014.
Dame Zarine Kharas DBE is the co-founder, with Anne-Marie Huby, of Justgiving, a global online giving platform.
Dame Teresa Lesley Rees, DBE, FAcSS, FLSW is a British social scientist, and a professor at Cardiff University. She specialises in the analysis of gender equality within education, training and labour market policies.
Dame Asha Khemka is a former British educator who resigned as Principal and CEO from West Nottinghamshire College in late 2018 when the college experienced financial difficulties. She joined the college in 2006, succeeding Di McEvoy-Robinson. Prior to her resignation in October 2018 she was one of the highest paid in the sector.
Dame Veronica Anne Courtice, DBE, LVO, DL, known as Polly Courtice, has an MA from the University of Cambridge (1973) and is also a graduate of the University of Cape Town (1978). She is a Fellow of Churchill College and an Honorary Fellow of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge.
Dame Philippa Jane Edwards Whipple, is a British judge, former barrister, and former solicitor. Between October 2015 and November 2021, she was a Justice of the High Court assigned to the Queen's Bench Division. Since November 2021 she has been a judge of the Court of Appeal.
Dame Stella Gordon Manzie is a British public servant.
Dame Heather Jane McGregor is a British executive, journalist, and academic. She is the Provost and Vice Principal of Heriot-Watt University Dubai since 1 September 2022. Prior to that and since 2016, she has been Executive Dean of Edinburgh Business School, Heriot Watt University. She wrote a column for the Financial Times from 1999 to 2016 as "Mrs Moneypenny", and was the chief executive of Taylor Bennett from 2000 to 2016.