Philippa Jane Rogerson is a British solicitor and academic who has been

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Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Gonville and Caius College, often referred to simply as Caius ( ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and one of ...

since 2018. She is Professor of Private International Law at the

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, where her research covers the conflict of laws and company law. In 2017, she was a member of the university's council. Rogerson studied economics and law at

Newnham College, Cambridge Newnham College is a women's constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1871 by a group organising Lectures for Ladies, members of which included philosopher Henry Sidgwick and suffragist campaigner Millicent ...

, receiving a BA in 1983, and went on to be admitted as a solicitor in 1986, working for

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. She became a fellow of Caius in 1989 and was awarded a PhD in 1990 for a thesis titled ''Intangible property in the conflict of laws''. In May 2017, the college announced that Rogerson had been elected the next master of Gonville and Caius, succeeding Sir

Alan Fersht Sir Alan Roy Fersht (born 21 April 1943) is a British chemist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, and an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. He was Master of Gonville and Caius C ...

when he retired in September 2018. She is the college's first female master, and was installed as such on 1 October 2018.

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