Marjorie Scardino
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Dame Marjorie Morris Scardino, DBE, FRSA (born 25 January 1947) is a non-executive director of Nokia and former CEO of the Economist Group. She became the first female Chief Executive of a FTSE 100 company when she was appointed CEO[1] of Pearson PLC in 1997
Scardino is a graduate of Baylor University and the University of San Francisco School of Law and the winner of the 2002 Benjamin Franklin Medal. Before 1985 she was the editor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper, The Georgia Gazette.
She is also a trustee[2] of the Victoria and Albert Museum, serves on the board of the MacArthur Foundation and the Carter Center, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
[edit] Citizenship
Even though she was born in the USA, she has taken British citizenship so her honour is substantive[citation needed].
[edit] References
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