Barbara Judge

Barbara Judge (Lady Judge) has been Chairman of the UK Atomic Energy since 2004. She is also Deputy Chairman of Friends Provident plc, as well as Co-Chairman of the UK Task Force on Corporate Governance and a Public Member of the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants. From 2003-2007 she was Deputy Chairman of the UK Financial Reporting Council which regulates UK corporate governance and accountants.

Barbara is a trained commercial lawyer with both British and American citizenship. She has had an unusually broad 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.

In 1980 Barbara 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.

Barbara was Chairman of LIFE IC, an incubator for renewable energy technologies. 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. She is also Chairman of the School of Oriental and African Studies.

She writes and speaks extensively on the subjects of corporate governance and international accounting standards, and the decommissioning of nuclear power plants and the need for their continued construction.