Elizabeth Llewellyn-Smith

Elizabeth Marion Llewellyn-Smith CB (born 17 August 1934) is a British academic administrator, who was the principal of St Hilda's College, Oxford.^[1]

Early life and education

Llewellyn-Smith was born in Upshire, Essex in 1934 and educated at Christ's Hospital, Girton College, Cambridge and the Royal College of Defence Studies.^[2]

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.^[3][4] During her time as Principal, her portrait was commissioned, painted in 1996 by Tom Phillips, which now hangs at the college. ^[5]

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. ^[6] She was also a lay board member of the Investigation and Discipline Board (IDB) of the Accountancy Foundation in 2002.^[7]

In 1993, Llewellyn Smith wrote of her doubts that Oxford University would consider institutional change as a way of allowing women's colleges to continue to accept only women students. ^[8] In 1996, she authored a chapter as part of a collection of women writing about their journeys to leadership in higher education. ^[9]

Honours

She was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1985 Birthday Honours.^[4]

As of 2011, she was Honorary Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge.^[10]

References

1. "Llewellyn-Smith, Elizabeth Marion". Who's Who (online ed.). doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u24735.
2. Sleeman, Elizabeth (2001). The International Who's Who of Women 2002. London: Routledge. ISBN 1857431227.
3. "Sudden exit for Oxford master". 14 September 2001.
4. Sleeman, Elizabeth (2001). The International Who's Who of Women 2002. London: Routledge. ISBN 1857431227.
5. "Elizabeth Llewellyn-Smith, Principal (1990–2001) | Art UK".
6. Pong, C. and Turley, S. 1997. "Audit firms and the audit market" in Current Issues in Auditing: SAGE Publications, p. 97
7. Accounting Reform and Investor Protection: Hearings before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs United States Senate One Hundred Seventh Congress Second Session Vol 1 on The legislative history of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Issues Raised by Enron and Other Public Companies, p. 178
8. [Llewellyn Smith, E. 1993. 'Does Oxford want a Women's College?', Oxford Magazine, 97.)
9. Llewellyn-Smith, E. 1996. "From Whitehall to Cherwell", in Walton, K., Ed. Against the Tide: Career Paths of Women Leaders in American and British Higher Education. Bloomington, IN: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation.
10. 2011 Annual Review: The annual record of Girton College, p. 1