Terri Scott is the former principal of

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, Northern Ireland, a position she held from 2014 to 2021. Prior to this post, she was the first female president of

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(ITS), from 2008 to 2014. She was the fourth woman in history to serve as president of one of the

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. Her academic career consists of more than two decades of work on multiple continents. Scott is originally from

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, where she still resides with her husband. They have three children. She was schooled at

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before progressing to the

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and

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. She spent time studying

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and

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. As a postgraduate she studied

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. At the University of Ulster she progressed to become

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and head of the university's School of

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and

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. She has been a visiting faculty member at

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(CMU) and the

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(MIT) and been involved with other universities around Europe and in Asia. In 2000, the

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awarded her with "IT Professional of the Year", the first time a woman had achieved this honour. Scott established the Northern Ireland Centre for Entrepreneurship, also directing it. She was managing director of

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from 2002 to 2006. She then moved on to become the founding CEO of the Ryan Academy of Entrepreneurship. As of 2010, she was a director and boardmember of

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. In November 2008, she became president of the Institute of Technology, Sligo. At the ninth annual Careers' Fair on 21 January 2009, she said:

References

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