Barbara Judge

Lady Judge at the 2009 World Economic Forum.

Barbara Thomas, Lady Judge, CBE (born 28 December 1946) is chairman of the Pension Protection Fund and of the Governing Body of the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Personal

Lady Judge is married to Sir Paul Judge, a principal benefactor of the Judge Business School (University of Cambridge). She is a dual citizen of the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Career

As Barbara S. Thomas, she received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania and then Juris Doctor with honours from New York University School of Law

She became a partner of the New York City law firm Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays, and Handler, specialising in corporate and financial transactions. In 1980 she was appointed by the President of the United States as the youngest ever Commissioner of the US Securities and Exchange Commission and was a founder of its international division. She was also appointed by the President to negotiate the opening of the Tokyo Stock Exchange to foreign members. In 1983 she moved to Hong Kong and was the first woman main board director of the London merchant bank, Samuel Montagu & Co.. She returned to New York in 1987 as Senior Vice President and Group Head of Bankers Trust - International Private Banking. In 1993 she moved to the United Kingdom as the first woman main board director of News International and thereafter led a buy-in of Whitworths Food Group, and was a founder of Private Equity Investor plc, a London-listed fund of private equity funds.

She became a director of the UK Atomic Energy Authority in 2002 and was its Chairman from 2004 to 2010. She became Chairman of the Pensions Protection Fund in 2010. She is also Chairman of the School of Oriental and African Studies and Deputy Chairman of Forte Energy (Australia). She is Co-Chairman of the UK/US Task Force on Corporate Governance. From 2003-2006 she was Deputy Chairman of the UK Financial Reporting Council. She is a Member of the Governing Body of the Ditchley Foundation and a Member of the Trilateral Commission. She is also an Independent Director of Massey Energy Inc (USA), Magna International (Canada) and Bekaert NV (Belgium).

Lady Judge is currently the chairman of the Board of Governors of the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

Lady Judge is also a member of the board in the Norwegian energy company Statoil.

She is a member of the International Board of Overseers of Sabancı University (Istanbul), the Executive Board for Europe, Africa, and the Middle East of Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania), and the Board of Governors of the Lauder Institute. She is a trustee of the Royal Academy and the Wallace Collection and a Public Member of the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants of the International Federation of Accountants.

Judge was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours.

References

• Nuclear Spin
• Financial Reporting Council
• Sabancı University