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Barbara Judge (Lady Barbara Judge)
 Lady Barbara Judge - Chairman of The UK Atomic Energy Authority. Corporate Governance, Energy and Financial Services Expert and Speaker.
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, with particular expertise in the energy sector and corporate governance.
Lady Barbara Judge received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and Juris Doctor with honours from New York University Law School. She became a partner of the New York law firm Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays and Handler in 1978 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 a London merchant bank, Samuel Montagu & Co., returning to New York in 1987 as Senior Vice President and Group Head of Bankers Trust - International Private Banking. In 1993 she moved to the UK as a main board director of News International and thereafter led buy-ins of Scotia Haven Food Group and Whitworths Food Group, and was a founder of Private Equity Investor plc, a large London listed fund of private equity funds.
Lady Barbara Judge became a director of the UK Atomic Energy Authority in 2002 and has been its Chairman since 2004, having been reappointed in 2007. She is also Chairman of the School of Oriental and African Studies and Deputy Chairman of Friends Provident plc as well as Co-Chairman of the UK Task Force on Corporate Governance and is a Public Member of the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants. Until recently, she was Chairman of LIFE IC, an incubator for renewable energy technologies. From 2003-2007 she was Deputy Chairman of the UK Financial Reporting Council which regulates UK corporate governance and accountants. She is a Member of the Governing Body of the Ditchley Foundation and a Member of the Trilateral Commission, among others. Her international experience includes being an Independent Director of NV Bekaert SA (Belgium) and Magna International Inc (Canada) among others.
She was the first woman member of the Board of Overseers of the Wharton School and is a founding director of the Lauder Institute of Management at the Wharton School.
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