Lady Elizabeth Vallance

JP MA MSc PhD

Elizabeth Vallance joined the Council as a non-executive director of MPS in February 2005 and was elected by the membership at the Annual General Meeting in June 2005. She sits on the board of Charter European Trust plc and has been an independent director of HMV Group, Norwich Union plc and Aviva plc.

She is a Fellow of Queen Mary and of the Institute of Education, both at the University of London [UK]. She is Chairman of I CAN, the children’s communication charity and was Chairman of St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust and of the Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence Awards. She is a magistrate on the inner London bench, was High Sheriff of Greater London (2008–2009), and is on the Committee on Standards in Public Life.