Elizabeth Marion Llewellyn-Smith (born 17 August 1934) is a British academic administrator, who was the principal of

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Early life and education

Llewellyn-Smith was born in

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, Essex in 1934 and educated at

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and the

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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. During her time as Principal, her portrait was commissioned, painted in 1996 by Tom Phillips, which now hangs at the college. 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. She was also a lay board member of the Investigation and Discipline Board (IDB) of the Accountancy Foundation in 2002. In 1993, Llewellyn Smith wrote of her doubts that

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would consider institutional change as a way of allowing women's colleges to continue to accept only women students. In 1996, she authored a chapter as part of a collection of women writing about their journeys to leadership in higher education.

Honours

She was appointed a

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(CB) in the

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. As of 2011, she was Honorary Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge.2011 Annual Review: The annual record of Girton College, p. 1

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Llewellyn-Smith, Elizabeth 1934 births Living people People educated at Christ's Hospital Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge Companions of the Order of the Bath Principals of St Hilda's College, Oxford