Rosemary Leith
Rosemary Leith | |
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Born | September 1961 |
Title | Lady Rosemary Leith Berners-Lee[a] |
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Rosemary Blaire Leith, Lady Berners-Lee (born in September 1961)[2] is a director of both profit and nonprofit organizations.[1] Leith co-founded the World Wide Web Foundation together with her husband-to-be, Tim Berners-Lee in 2009.[3]
Life
Leith was born in September 1961,[2] in Toronto, Ontario,[4] and studied at Queen's University at Kingston.[4] She moved to London in the late 1980s.[4]
During the dot-com bubble at the end of the twentieth century, Leith co-founded the webzine Flametree with Jayne Buxton, an acquaintance from Queen's who also lived in West London.[4] At this time Leith is quoted as saying: "Women go on the net with a purpose, not to play. They have less free time and are solution-driven. They want well-grounded advice that will help them to get things done."[4]
In 2009 Leith co-founded the World Wide Web Foundation with Tim Berners-Lee, who had invented the web.[3] She is a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.[5][6]
Leith is active in a number of arts organisations, advising on strategy and fundraising.[5] She was appointed, with Katrin Henkel, as trustees of the National Gallery in London for a four-year term from March 2016.[7] It was announced in December 2020 that both had had their terms extended for another four years to November 2024, Leith's contributions to various board of directors of arts institutions in London over the previous 20 years being noted.[6]
Directorships include YouGov, an international research and data analytics group.[8][2]
In June 2021, at Sotheby’s, Berners-Lee auctioned the source code from the web as a non-fungible token (NFT). The proceeds, some $5,434,500, were reported to be put towards initiatives by the husband and wife team.[9][10]
Personal life
She was married to Mark Opzoomer, with whom she had three children. They lived in Fulham, West London.[11]
In 2014 she married Tim Berners-Lee. The wedding was held at the Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace.[12]
References
Notes
Footnotes
Sources
- BKC (1 September 2020). "Rosemary Leith". Cyber.Havard.Edu. Archived from the original on 7 May 2021.
- Brown, Rob (31 August 2010) [1 June 2000]. "Web Wise Women: The founders of Flametree - a webzine, interactive forum and source of information for working women - know all about the daily work/life struggle. They're living it themselves, from concept to start-up". Management Today. UK. Archived from the original on 12 August 2020.
- Companies House (2021). "Rosemary Blaire Leith". Companies House Beta. Archived from the original on 1 July 2021. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
- DDCMS; National Gallery; Cameron, David (30 March 2016). "Prime Minister Appoints New National Gallery Trustees". Gov.uk. Archived from the original on 13 August 2020.
- DDCMS (18 December 2020). "The Prime Minister has reappointed Rosemary Leith and Katrin Henkel as Trustees of the National Gallery". Gov.uk. Archived from the original on 1 March 2021.
- Eden, Richard (22 May 2011). "Internet pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee casts a web of intrigue with his love life". www.telegraph.co.uk. Archived from the original on 24 May 2011. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
- Hern, Alex (23 June 2021). "Tim Berners-Lee defends auction of NFT representing web's source code". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
- Lawler, Richard (30 June 2021). "Sir Tim Berners-Lee's web source code NFT sells for $5.4 million". The Verge. VOX Media. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
- YouGov (2020). "Board of Directors". YouGov.com. Rosemary Leith. Archived from the original on 20 June 2020.
Non-Executive and Senior Independent Director
- WEF (2021). "Lady Rosemary Leith Berners-Lee". Archived from the original on 1 July 2021.
- WWWF (2009). "World Wide Web Foundation Board". Archived from the original on 14 April 2021. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
- WWWF (2014). "The Marriage of Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Ms Rosemary Leith". Archived from the original on 21 April 2021. Retrieved 2 July 2021.