Lady Barbara Judge, a trained commercial lawyer with both British and American citizenship, has an unusually broad and successful international career as a senior executive, chairman and non-executive director in both the private and public sectors.

 

She received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and Juris Doctor with honours from New York University Law School and was a partner in a major US law firm specialising in corporate and financial transactions.

 

She was appointed a Director of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority in 2002 and served as its Chairman from 2004 to 2010.  Upon completion of her two terms, she was appointed Chairman Emeritus.  At the same time she was also appointed as Chairman of the UK Pension Protection Fund.  In addition she is a member of the UK Nuclear Development Forum and Chairman of The Energy Institute of University College London.

 

Lady Judge is a non-executive director of Statoil ASA (Norway), NV Bekaert SA (Belgium) and Magna International Inc (Canada) among others.  She was previously a Commissioner of the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

In November 2010 Lady Judge was appointed by the Prime Minister as a Business Ambassador for the UK.

 

Lady Judge is also a member of the UAE Advisory Board for the Development of Peaceful Nuclear Energy, the Steering Committee of the Istanbul International Energy and Climate Center (IICEC) at Sabanci University and a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University, Centre for Corporate Reputation and a member of the EMEA Board of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.