Dame Lynne Brindley Hon FBA

Prime Warden (Chair of the Board) of the Goldsmiths’ Livery Company and member of the Wolfson Trust, Heritage, Humanities and Arts Committee.

Elected 2015

Fellow type
Honorary Fellow
Year elected
2015

Lynne has spent most of her career in universities and in the cultural sector, in a variety of senior executive roles and in non-executive positions. She has been a board member at Ofcom, the Chair of Nations and the Chair of Content Committees (2011-2017), on the City, University of London Council, Governance and Audit Committees (2011-2020), a member of the AHRC (2009-2014) and sat on the Stanford University Academic Information Resources Council (1997-2021).

She is presently the Prime Warden (Chair of the Board) of the Goldsmiths’ Livery Company, one of the Great XII companies in the City of London and a member of the Wolfson Trust, Heritage, Humanities and Arts Committee. She is an Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Oxford.

Current post

Prime Warden, Goldsmiths' Livery Company

Pembroke College, University of Oxford Honorary Fellow

Past appointments

Master of Pembroke College, University of Oxford

2013 - 2020

Chief Executive Officer, The British Library

2000 - 2012

Pro-Vice-Chancellor and University Librarian, University of Leeds

1997 - 2000

Director of Information Services, London School of Economics

1992 - 1997

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