Lady Barbara Judge, CBE
Chairman of the Pension Protection Fund in the United Kingdom and Chairman Emeritus of the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority

"Nuclear Energy after Fukushima:
Policies, Practices, and Problems"

Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012

Doors open at 5:00 p.m.

Lecture from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

NYIT Auditorium on Broadway
1871 Broadway, Manhattan campus

R.S.V.P.

About the Speaker

Lady Barbara Judge, CBE, is a trained commercial lawyer with British and American citizenship. Her successful international career has included serving as a senior executive, chairman, and non-executive director in the private and public sectors.

Lady Judge received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and Juris Doctor with honors from New York University Law School, eventually serving as a partner in a major U.S. law firm specializing in corporate and financial transactions.

In 1980, Lady Judge was appointed as the youngest ever commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Thereafter, she was appointed as the first woman executive director of Samuel Montagu and, subsequently, News International, among other firms.

Lady Judge joined the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority as director in 2002, became its chairman in 2004, and was reappointed in 2007. Upon completion of two terms, she was appointed chairman emeritus in 2010, the same year she was named as chairman of the U.K. Pension Protection Fund.

In addition, Lady Judge is chairman of the Energy Institute of University College London and the U.K. Global Nuclear Initiative. She is also chairman of the London Middle East Institute and a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council of Foreign Relations.

Lady Judge was the first woman member of the Board of Overseers of the Wharton School of Business and is currently a member of its executive board for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. She became a member of New York Institute of Technology's Board of Trustees in 2011.

She is a non-executive director of Statoil ASA (Norway), NV Bekaert SA (Belgium), and Magna International Inc. (Canada). She is also a member of the U.A.E. Advisory Board for the Development of Peaceful Nuclear Energy, the Steering Committee of the Istanbul International Energy and Climate Center at Sabanci University and a visiting fellow at Oxford University's Centre for Corporate Reputation.

Previously, she served as deputy chairman of the U.K. Financial Reporting Council as well as a public member of the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants, among others.

The British prime minister appointed Lady Judge as a Business Ambassador for the United Kingdom in November 2009. In June 2010, Lady Judge was awarded Commander of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to the nuclear and financial services industries.